14 occurrences

'Wailing' in the Bible

In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Verse ConceptsProvincesAshesWailingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofLamentingSongsWailingLand Becoming EmptyI Mourn Catastrophe

and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Verse ConceptsShedding

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

Verse ConceptsPeople TeachingWomen WorkingBeing A Woman Of Godwomanhood

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.

In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

Verse ConceptsWailingUnique Nations

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

Verse ConceptsGesturesFarmersMourningRoadsMournersWailingCity SquaresGod As A WarriorHighways

In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsPassing ThroughDestroying VineyardsMourning Due To Catastrophe

Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

Verse ConceptsNaked In ShameGoing Outside

In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Verse ConceptsBangsSecond ThingA Fourth Part

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

Verse ConceptsThe Glory Of ManInadequate ShepherdingWailingPeople Mourning CatastropheLosing Honour

He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.

Verse ConceptsLamentingWeepingExcitementWailing

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מספּד 
Micepd 
Usage: 16

נהּ 
Noahh 
Usage: 1

נהה 
Nahah 
Usage: 3

נהי 
N@hiy 
Usage: 7

ני 
Niy 
Usage: 1

ספד 
Caphad 
Usage: 30

ἀλαλάζω 
Alalazo 
Usage: 2

κλαυθμός 
Klauthmos 
Usage: 2

κόπτω 
Kopto 
Usage: 6

πενθέω 
Pentheo 
Usage: 7