KJV Dictionary - painful
Bible software
For a complete Bible study software package with over one million cross-references combined, try SwordSearcher: designed for believing Bible study. SwordSearcher has tens of thousands of topical and encyclopedic entries all linked to scripture, fully searchable and indexed by both topic and verse reference. Includes Webster's 1828 Dictionary, commentaries, Bible dictionaries, books, and more.
Try Daily Bible and Prayer to keep track of your prayer list, do a daily devotional from C. H. Spurgeon's Faith Checkbook, and make Bible reading plans.
PAINFUL
PA'INFUL, a. Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery.
1. Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure.
2. Full of pain; producing misery or affliction.
3. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service. The army had a painful march.
4. Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious.
Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
Previous word: pain.
Next word: painfulness.