Genesis 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
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Mourning
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Revelation 18:8
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
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6 occurrences in 5 verses.
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This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Genesis
65 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
2 Samuel
33 verses
Esther
33 verses
Job
33 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Ecclesiastes
22 verses
Isaiah
44 verses
Jeremiah
55 verses
Lamentations
22 verses
Ezekiel
44 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Joel
11 verses
Amos
32 verses
Micah
22 verses
Zechariah
21 verses
Matthew
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
James
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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אֵבֶל
ʼêbel · ay'-bel
24 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: mourning.
Strong's first: Genesis 27:41Strong's last: Micah 1:8
Open full H60 profile →מִסְפֵּד
miçpêd · mis-pade'
6 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: Psalms 30:11Strong's last: Zechariah 12:11
Open full H4553 profile →קָדַר
qâdar · kaw-dar'
4 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 30:28Strong's last: Psalms 43:2
Open full H6937 profile →ὀδυρμός
odyrmós · od-oor-mos'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
moaning, i.e. lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: :--mourning.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:18Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 7:7
Open full G3602 profile →πένθος
pénthos · pen'-thos
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
grief
Strong's KJV usage: :--mourning, sorrow.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 4:9Strong's last: Revelation 18:8
Open full G3997 profile →אָבַל
ʼâbal · aw-bal'
2 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
to bewail
Strong's KJV usage: lament, mourn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 31:15Strong's last: Daniel 10:2
Open full H56 profile →אָבֵל
ʼâbêl · aw-bale'
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
lamenting
Strong's KJV usage: mourn(-er, -ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 37:35Strong's last: Esther 6:12
Open full H57 profile →אָוֶן
ʼâven · aw-ven'
1 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
Strong's KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 26:14Strong's last: Deuteronomy 26:14
Open full H205 profile →אֲנָחָה
ʼănâchâh · an-aw-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
sighing
Strong's KJV usage: groaning, mourn, sigh.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 51:11Strong's last: Isaiah 51:11
Open full H585 profile →בְּכִית
bᵉkîyth · bek-eeth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a weeping
Strong's KJV usage: mourning.
Strong's first: Genesis 50:4Strong's last: Genesis 50:4
Open full H1068 profile →הֶגֶה
hegeh · heh'-geh
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a muttering (in sighing, thought, or as thunder)
Strong's KJV usage: mourning, sound, tale.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 2:10Strong's last: Ezekiel 2:10
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hâmâh · haw-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
to make a loud sound (like English 'hum'); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor
Strong's KJV usage: clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise, rage, roar, sound, be troubled, make in tumult, tumultuous, be in an uproar.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 7:16Strong's last: Ezekiel 7:16
Open full H1993 profile →לִוְיָתָן
livyâthân · liv-yaw-thawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea-monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Babylon
Strong's KJV usage: leviathan, mourning.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 3:8Strong's last: Job 3:8
Open full H3882 profile →מַרְזֵחַ
marzêach · mar-zay'-akh
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a cry, i.e. (of grief) a lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: mourning.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 16:5Strong's last: Jeremiah 16:5
Open full H4798 profile →תַּאֲנִיָּה
taʼănîyâh · tah-an-ee-yaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: heaviness, mourning.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Lamentations 2:5Strong's last: Lamentations 2:5
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H60
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
H60
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
H60
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
no direct Strong's tag
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
H4798
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
H60
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
H60
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
H8386
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
H60
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
H1899
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
H1993
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
H60
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
H56
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.
H56
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
H4553
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
H60
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
H60
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
H60
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
H60
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
H4553
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
H4553
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
H4553
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
G3602
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
G3602
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
G3997
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
English meaning and historical usage.
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mourning
MOURNING, participle present tense Grieving; lamenting; sorrowing; wearing the appearance of sorrow.
MOURNING, noun The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
1. The dress or customary habit worn by mourners.
And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.
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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