SIGHING
Sighing
SIGHING.The expression of trouble by means of involuntary respiration. This expression is used in connexion with our Lord twice, both times in St. Marks Gospel. It is expressed in Mar 7:34 by the word in the LXX Septuagint the equivalent of and in Mar 8:12 by the compound . In both instances the words appear in this Gospel alone, and only in these passages. The expression is evidently meant to convey the fact of the Lords sympathy with men. In the first, the healing of the deaf and dumb man, our Lord felt the burden of the disease which He was about to cure. And here the expression is associated with prayer on His part: And, looking up to heaven, he sighed. In the second, where a stronger expression is used through the compound, the Pharisees are asking for a sign, and He sighed in his spirit, evidently thinking of the speedy appearance of the sign for which they asked, and mourning over the terrible nature which it would bear. On the groaning of Joh 11:33; Joh 11:38 see Anger in vol. i. p. 62b.
W. H. Rankine.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
SIGHING
Job 3:24; Psa 31:10; Jer 45:3; Lam 1:22; Mar 7:34; Mar 8:12
–SEE Sorrow, SORROW
Despondency, DESPONDENCY