19 occurrences in 8 translations

'Lamenting' in the Bible

discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

"Back at home, out the window Sisera's mother peered, lamenting through the lattice. "Why is his chariot delayed in returning? "Why do the hoof beats of his chariots wait?'

In every province where the order of the king and his edict reached, among the Jewish people there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and lamenting, and many lay down on sackcloth and ashes.

to establish these days of Purim [to be observed] at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions regarding their times of fasting and their lamentations (expressions of needing help).

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.

Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,

Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting. Preserve my life from [the] fear of [the] enemy.

I will bring distress to Ariel,And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning;And she will be like an Ariel to me.

For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

And Yahweh said to him, "Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you must place a mark on the foreheads of the men {who are groaning and lamenting} about all of the detestable things {that are being done} in the midst of her."

It is a lamentation, and thus they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall say it in lamenting; they shall say it in lamenting over Egypt and over all her multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Depart in shameful nakedness,you residents of Shaphir;the residents of Zaanan will not come out.Beth-ezel is lamenting;its support is taken from you.

"When this happens, someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully, "We are completely ruined! He has given my people's heritage to others. How he has removed it from me, dividing up our fields!'

It is decreed:Nineveh is stripped, and she is carried away,And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,Beating on their breasts [in sorrow].

And all were weeping and lamenting her. But he said, Do not weep, for she has not died, but sleeps.

A large crowd of people followed Him, including women who were mourning and lamenting 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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