Esther 4:3
And in every province, whithersoever 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.
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Wailing
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Revelation 18:19
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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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: Esther 4:3Strong's last: Micah 1:8
Open full H4553 profile →נְהִי
nᵉhîy · neh-hee'
4 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
an elegy
Strong's KJV usage: lamentation, wailing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 9:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 9:20
Open full H5092 profile →κλαυθμός
klauthmós · klowth-mos'
2 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: :--wailing, weeping, X wept.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:42Strong's last: Matthew 13:50
Open full G2805 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: Revelation 18:15Strong's last: Revelation 18:19
Open full G3996 profile →נֹהַּ
nôahh · no'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: wailing.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 7:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 7:11
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nîy · nee
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
lamentation
Strong's KJV usage: wailing.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 27:32Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:32
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H4553
And in every province, whithersoever 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.
H5092
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
H5092
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.
H5092
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
H5092
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
H5089
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
H4553
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
H5204
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
H4553
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.
H4553
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.
H4553
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
H4553
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.
G2805
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
G2805
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
G3996
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
G3996
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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wailing
WAILING, participle present tense Lamenting with audible cries.
WAILING, noun Loud cries of sorrow; deep lamentation.
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:42.
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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