groaning
14 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach:
For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.
1 Enoch
Their groaning ascends; nor can they escape from the unrighteousness which is committed on earth. Thou knowest all things, before they exist.
Fear not, ye souls of the righteous; but wait with patient hope for the day of your death in righteousness. Grieve not, because your souls descend in great trouble, with groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to the receptacle of the dead. In your lifetime your bodies have not received a recompense in proportion to your goodness, but in the period of your existence have sinners existed; in the period of execration and of punishment.
OT Pseudepigrapha
THEN God looked again upon Adam and his weeping and groaning, and the Word of God came to him, and said unto him:--