Genesis 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
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Mourned
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1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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אָבַל
ʼâbal · aw-bal'
10 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
to bewail
Strong's KJV usage: lament, mourn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 37:34Strong's last: Nehemiah 1:4
Open full H56 profile →סָפַד
çâphad · saw-fad'
6 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 50:10Strong's last: Zechariah 7:5
Open full H5594 profile →θρηνέω
thrēnéō · thray-neh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to bewail
Strong's KJV usage: :--lament, mourn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 11:17Strong's last: Luke 7:32
Open full G2354 profile →πενθέω
penthéō · pen-theh'-o
2 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: Mark 16:10Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 5:2
Open full G3996 profile →בָּכָה
bâkâh · baw-kaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form113 total Strong's occurrences
to weep; generally to bemoan
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, × more, mourn, × sore, × with tears, weep.
Strong's first: Genesis 50:3Strong's last: Numbers 20:29
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H56
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
H1058
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
H5594
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
H56
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
H56
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
H1058
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
H56
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
H5594
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
H5594
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
H56
But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
H56
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
H5594
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
H5594
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
H56
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
H56
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
H56
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
H56
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
H5594
Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
G2354
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
G3996
And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
G2354
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
G3996
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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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