Words the Bible translates as mourn
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- klaiōκλαίωto weep aloud: to cry out in audible grief, mourning, or distress
- bakhahבָּכָהto weep: to shed tears aloud, the body's open response to grief, pain, longing, or relief.
- koptōκόπτωto mourn openly: to beat the breast and wail so that grief is seen and heard
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- to cut off: to chop something free with a blow of a blade, as branches are cut from a tree
- pentheōπενθέωto mourn: to grieve a loss so deeply that the sorrow shows
- avalאָבַלto mourn: to grieve a death or disaster, with the body and the land itself drooping in sorrow.
- saphadסָפַדto wail in mourning: to perform the loud, public lament for the dead, chest-beating and crying aloud.
- qadarקָדַרto grow dark, and so to go about darkened and gloomy in mourning
- anaḥאָנַחto sigh or groan: to let out a heavy, audible breath of grief, pain, or distress
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