1 Samuel 1:8
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
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John 20:15
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
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κλαίω
klaíō · klah'-yo
1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to sob, i.e. wail aloud (whereas 1145 is rather to cry silently)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bewail, weep.
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Strong's first: John 20:15Strong's last: John 20:15
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bâkâh · baw-kaw'
1 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: 1 Samuel 1:8Strong's last: 1 Samuel 1:8
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H1058
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
no direct Strong's tag
And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
G2799
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
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weep
WEEP, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive wept. Weeped, I believe is never used. [See Whoop. The primary sense is to cry out.]
1. To express sorrow, grief or anguish by outcry. This is the original sense. But in present usage, to manifest and express grief by outcry or by shedding tears.
They all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him. Acts 20:1.
Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
2. To shed tears from any passion. Persons sometimes weep for joy.
3. To lament; to complain. Numbers 11:10.
WEEP, verb transitive
1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
We wandring go through dreary wastes, and weep each others woe.
2. To shed moisture; as, to weep tears of joy.
Groves whose rich trees wept odrous gum and balm.
3. To drop; as the weeping amber.
4. To abound with wet; as weeping grounds.
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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