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Reference: Mourn

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Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Ge 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (Ge 37:34-35); the Egyptians for Jacob (Ge 50:3-10); Israel for Aaron (Nu 20:29), for Moses (De 34:8), and for Samuel (1Sa 25:1); David for Abner (2Sa 3:31,35); Mary and Martha for Lazarus (Joh 11); devout men for Stephen (Ac 8:2), etc.

(2.) For calamities, Job (Job 1:20-21; 2:8); Israel (Ex 33:4); the Ninevites (Jon 3:5); Israel, when defeated by Benjamin (Jg 20:26), etc.

(3.) Penitential mourning, by the Israelites on the day of atonement (Le 23:27; Ac 27:9); under Samuel's ministry (1Sa 7:6); predicted in Zechariah (Zec 12:10-11); in many of the psalms (51, etc.).

Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Ge 35:8, marg.; Lu 7:38, etc.); (2) by loud lamentation (Ru 1:9; 1Sa 6:19; 2Sa 3:31); (3) by the disfigurement of the person, as rending the clothes (Ge 37:29,34; Mt 26:65), wearing sackcloth (Ge 37:34; Ps 35:13), sprinkling dust or ashes on the person (2Sa 13:19; Jer 6:26; Job 2:12), shaving the head and plucking out the hair of the head or beard (Le 10:6; Job 1:20), neglect of the person or the removal of ornaments (Ex 33:4; De 21:12-13; 2Sa 14:2; 19:24; Mt 6:16-17), fasting (2Sa 1:12), covering the upper lip (Le 13:45; Mic 3:7), cutting the flesh (Jer 16:6-7), and sitting in silence (Jg 20:26; 2Sa 12:16; 13:31; Job 1:20).

In the later times we find a class of mourners who could be hired to give by their loud lamentation the external tokens of sorrow (2Ch 35:25; Jer 9:17; Mt 9:23).

The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was seventy days (Ge 50:3); for Aaron (Nu 20:29) and Moses (De 34:8) thirty days; and for Saul only seven days (1Sa 31:13). In 2Sa 3:31-35, we have a description of the great mourning for the death of Abner.

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Gen 23:2

Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to cry because of her death.

Verse ConceptsGrief Loss Sorrow Weeping Mourning The Death Of Others Death

Gen 35:8

Deborah died. She was the servant who cared for Rebekah from childhood. She was buried near Bethel, under the holy tree. They named it Allon-bacuth (weeping tree).

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places Of Nurses Trees Oaks Mourning Death

Gen 37:29

Reuben came back to the pit and found that Joseph was not there. He tore his clothes in sorrow.

Verse ConceptsClothing Clothing, Tearing Of Tearing Of Clothes Those Who Tore Clothes Nowhere To Be Found

Gen 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

Verse ConceptsCloth Clothing, Tearing Of Bereavement, Expression Of Loss Sackcloth And Ashes Tearing Of Clothes Those Who Tore Clothes Action For A Long Time

Gen 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

Verse ConceptsCloth Clothing, Tearing Of Bereavement, Expression Of Loss Sackcloth And Ashes Tearing Of Clothes Those Who Tore Clothes Action For A Long Time

Gen 37:34-35

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time. All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

Verse ConceptsCloth Clothing, Tearing Of Bereavement, Expression Of Loss Sackcloth And Ashes Tearing Of Clothes Those Who Tore Clothes Action For A Long Time Bereavement, Experience Of Grave, The Love, And The World Sheol Weeping Comfort, Of Friends Parental Love Afflicted To Death No Comfort

Gen 50:3

It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Verse ConceptsLoss Forty Days More Than One Month Two To Four Months Preparation For Burial

Gen 50:3-10

It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials: Please take this message to the king: read more.

Verse ConceptsLoss Forty Days More Than One Month Two To Four Months Preparation For Burial Nearness Of Death Death Will Soon Happen The Cave Of Machpelah Ceremonies Old Age, Attitudes To People Abandoning People Chariots Dealing With Many People Funerals Bereavement, Experience Of Lamenting Seven Weeks Seven Days Beyond Jordan Mourning The Death Of Others

Exo 33:4

The people heard this bad news and acted as if someone had died. No one wore any jewelry.

Verse ConceptsMourning People Stripping Off

Exo 33:4

The people heard this bad news and acted as if someone had died. No one wore any jewelry.

Verse ConceptsMourning People Stripping Off

Lev 10:6

Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar: Do not leave your hair uncombed or tear your clothes to show that you are in mourning. If you do you will die. For Jehovah will be angry with the whole community. But all other Israelites are allowed to mourn this death caused by the fire Jehovah sent.

Verse ConceptsClothing Clothing, Tearing Of Hairs Covering Heads Bare Heads Death Due To God's Presence Burning People Not Tearing Clothes Do Not Mourn God Will Be Angry Mourning The Death Of Others

Lev 13:45

If you have a dreaded skin disease, you must wear torn clothes, leave your hair uncombed, cover the lower part of your face, and call out: Unclean, unclean!

Verse ConceptsCovering The Mouth Purity, Nature Of Veils Quarantining Covering Heads Facial Hair

Lev 23:27

The tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire.

Verse ConceptsHoliday Month New Year, The Autumn Convocations Afflicting Your Soul Month 7 Humbling Oneself Months

Num 20:29

The entire congregation learned that Aaron had died. They all mourned for him for thirty days.

Verse ConceptsLoss Month Mourning One Month Mourning The Death Of Others

Num 20:29

The entire congregation learned that Aaron had died. They all mourned for him for thirty days.

Verse ConceptsLoss Month Mourning One Month Mourning The Death Of Others

Deut 21:12-13

Take her to your home. She should shave her head and cut her nails. She should no longer wear the clothes she was wearing when you captured her. She may live in your house and mourn the loss of her father and mother for one month. After that you may marry her.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Unnatural Baldness Heads Shaving Finger Nails Relationships With Boyfriend Hair boyfriends Month One Month Mourning Death Distinctive Clothing

Deut 34:8

So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression Of Loss Month Mourning Sorrow Suffering, Emotional Aspects Of Weeping One Month Mourning The Death Of Others

Deut 34:8

So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression Of Loss Month Mourning Sorrow Suffering, Emotional Aspects Of Weeping One Month Mourning The Death Of Others

Judg 20:26

The people of Israel went up to Bethel and mourned. They sat there in Jehovah's presence and fasted until evening. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole in the presence of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature Of Asceticism, Types Prayer, Practicalities Of Sacrifice, In Ot Unhappiness Weeping Ark Of The Covenant, Events Action Until Evening Fasting

Judg 20:26

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature Of Asceticism, Types Prayer, Practicalities Of Sacrifice, In Ot Unhappiness Weeping Ark Of The Covenant, Events Action Until Evening Fasting

Rth 1:9

May Jehovah make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a home. Then Naomi kissed them good-bye and they cried.

Verse ConceptsPeople Kissing Kissing Marriage, Restrictions Concerning Weeping Kisses goodbyes

1 Sam 7:6

The Israelites gathered at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of Jehovah and fasted that day. They confessed: We have sinned against Jehovah. So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice Of Assembly Repentance, Examples Of Shrines Fasting, Accompanied By Religious Awakenings Drawing Water Pouring Water Judging Israel We Have Sinned

1 Sam 25:1

Samuel died. All Israel gathered to mourn him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David went to the desert of Paran.

Verse ConceptsCemetery Mourners Mourning The Death Of Others

1 Sam 31:13

They buried the bones under a small tree in Jabesh. Then for seven days, they went without eating to show their sorrow.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature Of Seven Weeks Cemetery Seven Days Tamarisk Fasting In Mourning

2 Sam 1:12

They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of Jehovah, because so many had been killed in battle.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature Of Evening Loss Weeping Action Until Evening Fasting In Mourning Mourning The Death Of Others

2 Sam 3:31

Verse ConceptsGestures Clothing Cloth Sackcloth And Ashes Preparation For Burial

2 Sam 3:31-35

David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried. Abner was buried in Hebron. David and everyone else stood at the tomb and cried loudly. read more.

Verse ConceptsGestures Clothing Cloth Sackcloth And Ashes Preparation For Burial Bereavement, Experience Of Mourning The Death Of Others Burying places Counted As Fools Weeping Tying Up Bronze Shackles Persuasion Promises, Human Taste Sunsets Vowing To Fast

2 Sam 3:35

David refused to eat anything the day of the funeral even though people tried to persuade him to eat. David vowed: May God strike me dead if I taste any food or anything else before the sun goes down.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion Promises, Human Taste Sunsets Vowing To Fast

2 Sam 13:19

Tamar tore the robe she was wearing. She put ashes on her head. Then she covered her face with her hands. She cried loudly as she walked away.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of Clothes Clothing, Tearing Of Ashes Weeping Fine Clothes Those Who Tore Clothes Ashes Of Humiliation

2 Chron 35:25

Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations (dirges) to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression Of Lamenting Songs Traditions Writing Books Mourners anniversary

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

Verse ConceptsMantles Clothing, Tearing Of Barbers Baldness Bereavement, Experience Of Hairs Shaving Tearing Of Clothes Dress Those Who Tore Clothes

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

Verse ConceptsMantles Clothing, Tearing Of Barbers Baldness Bereavement, Experience Of Hairs Shaving Tearing Of Clothes Dress Those Who Tore Clothes

Job 1:20-21

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground. He said: I was born with nothing (naked), and I will die with nothing. Jehovah gave, and now he has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah!

Verse ConceptsMantles Clothing, Tearing Of Barbers Baldness Bereavement, Experience Of Hairs Shaving Tearing Of Clothes Dress Those Who Tore Clothes Babies In The Womb Affluence Bad Things Afflicted Saints Being Born In Sin Nakedness Providence Rich, The Euthanasia Suffering, Of The Innocent Suicide Womb Poverty Nudity Resignation Being Unclothed Nothing Babies Naked In Origin New Born Blessed Be God!God Giving Freely Death All Life Is Dependent On God Futility Of Worldly Pursuits

Job 2:8

Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.

Verse ConceptsAshes Ashes Of Humiliation

Job 2:12

They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative Use Robes Sprinkling Tearing Of Clothes Weeping Seeing At A Distance Dust On The Head Not Recognising People Those Who Tore Clothes

Psa 35:13

But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned unanswered.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice Of Cloth Humility Prayer, Practicalities Of Caring For The Sick Sick Individuals How To Fast Humbling Oneself Fasting Fasting And Prayer

Jer 6:26

O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Verse ConceptsAshes Lamenting Suddenly Those Who Destroy Ashes Of Humiliation Others Mourning

Jer 9:17

Jehovah of Hosts says: 'Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come!

Verse ConceptsSkill Wisdom, Human Nature Mourners Wailing Women Working Being A Woman Of God

Jer 16:6-7

Both great and small men 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. Men will not break bread in mourning for them in order to comfort anyone for the dead. Nor will they give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.

Verse ConceptsThe Dead Baldness Hairs Knives Unburied Bodies No Burials Great And Small Gashing Bodies Not Mourning No Comfort losing a loved one Death Of A Family Member Death Of Loved One Missing Someone Death Of A Mother Family Death Loss Of A Loved One Losing Someone

Jnh 3:5

The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Verse ConceptsAbstinence as a discipline Religion Repentance, Examples Of Great And Small Believing In God Others Believing In God Fasting Fasting And Prayer jonah

Micah 3:7

The visionaries will be shamed. The diviners confounded! They will all cover their mouths for there is no answer from God.

Verse ConceptsCovering The Mouth Seers Veils Occultism God Not Answering Shame Will Come Disappointment witches Occult Being Powerless Before God

Zech 12:10-11

I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born. That day will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon (Megiddo).

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORD Firstborn Brokenness Being A Witness Being Betrayed Bereavement, Expression Of Gospel, Confirmation Of Grace, In Ot Spears Sorrow Spirit, Emotional Aspects Of Unhappiness Jesus Christ, Prophecies Of Names And Titles For The Holy Spirit The Outpouring Of The Holy Spirit,The Spirit Of God Messianic Prophecies The Holy Spirit, And Prayer Bitter Herbs The Only Child Only Child Of People Mourning The Death Of Christ People Showing Mercy Conversion Of Israel Rebirth Of Israel supplication Megiddo Mourning Due To Catastrophe anniversary

Matt 6:16-17

When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward. Anoint your head and wash your face.

Verse ConceptsAbstinence as a discipline Atonement Faces Fasting, Of Hypocrites Neglecting Duties Displaying Being Seen By Man Clean Faces People Unwashed When?How To Fast No Reward Settling Accounts Appearances of Hypocrites Fasting Hypocrisy Fasting And Prayer Smiling makeup Anointing Anointing, Social Custom Anointing With Oil Ointment Anointing Oneself Anointing Oil Hair lent

Matt 9:23

Jesus went into the official's house and saw flute players and the crowd making a lot of noise.

Verse ConceptsFunerals Noise Mourning Musical Instruments, types of Mourners Wailing Disorder Among People Instrumentalists Disadvantages Of Crowds

Matt 26:65

Then the high priest ripped his robes apart and said: He has said evil against God! Why do we need more witnesses? You have heard his words of blasphemy!

Verse ConceptsTearing Of Clothes Gestures Blasphemy, Falsely Accused Hearing Christ Those Who Tore Clothes Blasphemy Man's Needs

Luk 7:38

Standing by his feet weeping, she wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head. Then she kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Verse ConceptsKissing Christ Affection, Expressing Anointing With Oil Hairs Kissing Pain Weeping Meals Moist Things People Drying Things Up Clean Feet Care Of Feet Other References To Hair Others Mourning

Act 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and mourned him greatly.

Verse ConceptsThe Dead Devout Men Bereavement, Experience Of Mourning Sorrow Character Of Saints Lamenting Men Worshipping Mourning The Death Of Others Burying places

Act 27:9

Much time had been lost and sailing was now dangerous. Because the fast was over Paul admonished them,

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature Of Atonement Loss Fasting Regularly Time Passing sailing