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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. / John 11: 33
Grimm, in his lexicon to the New Testament, after giving as the equivalent of the word ἐμβριμάομαι in pagan use, "I am moved with anger," "I roar or growl," "I snort at," "I am vehemently angry or indignant with someone," tells us that in Mark 1: 43, and Matthew 9: 30, it has a meaning different from that of the pagans, namely, "I command with severe admonishment. " That he has any authority for saying so, I do not imagine, and believe the statement a blunder. The Translators and Revisers, however, have in those passages used the word similarly, and in one place, the passage before us, where a true version is of yet more consequence, have taken another liberty and rendered the word "groaned. " The Revisers, at the same time, place in the margin what I cannot but believe its true meaning -- "was moved with indignation."