Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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Mourn
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Revelation 18:11
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
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22 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Job
33 verses
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11 verses
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33 verses
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11 verses
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65 verses
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22 verses
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אָבַל
ʼâbal · aw-bal'
15 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
to bewail
Strong's KJV usage: lament, mourn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 16:1Strong's last: Amos 9:5
Open full H56 profile →סָפַד
çâphad · saw-fad'
8 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
Strong's KJV usage: lament, mourn(-er), wail.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 23:2Strong's last: Zechariah 12:12
Open full H5594 profile →πενθέω
penthéō · pen-theh'-o
5 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to grieve (the feeling or the act)
Strong's KJV usage: :--mourn, (be-)wail.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:4Strong's last: Revelation 18:11
Open full G3996 profile →הָגָה
hâgâh · daw-gaw'
4 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder
Strong's KJV usage: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, × sore, speak, study, talk, utter.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 16:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:31
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ʼâbêl · aw-bale'
3 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
lamenting
Strong's KJV usage: mourn(-er, -ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 61:2Strong's last: Lamentations 1:4
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nâham · naw-ham'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to growl
Strong's KJV usage: mourn, roar(-ing).
Strong's first: Proverbs 5:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 24:23
Open full H5098 profile →קָדַר
qâdar · kaw-dar'
2 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to be ashy, i.e. dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
Strong's KJV usage: be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), × heavily, (cause to) mourn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 5:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 31:15
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kóptō · kop'-to
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to "chop"; specially, to beat the breast in grief
Strong's KJV usage: :--cut down, lament, mourn, (be-)wail.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:30Strong's last: Matthew 24:30
Open full G2875 profile →אָנָה
ʼânâh · aw-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to groan
Strong's KJV usage: lament, mourn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 19:8Strong's last: Isaiah 19:8
Open full H578 profile →אָנַח
ʼânach · aw-nakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to sigh
Strong's KJV usage: groan, mourn, sigh.
Strong's first: Proverbs 29:2Strong's last: Proverbs 29:2
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miçpêd · mis-pade'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
a lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: lamentation, one mourneth, mourning, wailing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Zechariah 12:10Strong's last: Zechariah 12:10
Open full H4553 profile →נוּד
nûwd · nood
1 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
to nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear; also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console, deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt
Strong's KJV usage: bemoan, flee, get, mourn, make to move, take pity, remove, shake, skip for joy, be sorry, vagabond, way, wandering.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 2:11Strong's last: Job 2:11
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rûwd · rood
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to tramp about, i.e. ramble (free or disconsolate)
Strong's KJV usage: have the dominion, be lord, mourn, rule.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 55:2Strong's last: Psalms 55:2
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H56
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
H56
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
H5594
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
H5594
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
H5098
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
H6937
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
English meaning and historical usage.
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mourn
MOURN, verb intransitive [Latin maereo.]
1. To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful. Mourning may be expressed by weeping or audible sounds, or by sobs, sighs or inward silent grief.
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep. Genesis 23:2.
Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4.
2. To wear the customary habit of sorrow.
We mourn in black.
Grieve for an hour perhaps, then mourn a year.
MOURN, verb transitive To grieve for; to lament. But there is an ellipsis of for, the verb not being transitive. When we say, we mourn a friend or a child, the real sense and complete phrase is, we mourn for a friend, or mourn for the loss of a friend. 'He mourn'd his rival's ill success, ' that is, he mourned for his rival's ill success.
1. To utter in a sorrowful manner.
The love lorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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