25 occurrences in 10 translations

'Lamented' in the Bible

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.

“Out of the window she looked and lamented,The mother of Sisera through the lattice,‘Why does his chariot delay in coming?Why do the hoofbeats of his chariots tarry?’

And he said, "Go." He sent her away [for] two months, and she went with her friends, and she lamented over her virginity on the mountains.

And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord's people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict came. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.

So I thought to myself, "The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?" So I lamented to myself, "The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!"

And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!

And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.

They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

And lifted up for thee have their sons a lamentation, And they have lamented over thee, who is as Tyre? As the cut-off one in the midst of the sea?

A lamentation it is, and they have lamented her, Daughters of the nations do lament her, For Egypt, and for all her multitude, they lament her, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these 70 years, did you really fast for Me?

And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

Immediately a rooster crowed the second time. And Peter remembered what Jesus said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And thinking of this, he began weeping [in anguish].

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
H56
אבל 
'abal 
Usage: 39

אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 1

אנה 
'anah 
Usage: 2

אניּה 
'aniyah 
Usage: 4

בּכה 
Bakah 
Usage: 114

מספּד 
Micepd 
Usage: 16

נהה 
Nahah 
Usage: 3

נהי 
N@hiy 
Usage: 7

ספד 
Caphad 
Usage: 30

עצב 
`atsab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

קוּן 
Quwn 
Usage: 8

קינה 
Qiynah 
Usage: 18

תּנה 
Tanah 
Usage: 2

θρηνέω 
Threneo 
Usage: 1

θρῆνος 
Threnos 
Usage: 1

κοπετός 
Kopetos 
Usage: 1

κόπτω 
Kopto 
Usage: 6

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