Lamentation
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Lamentation (45 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. LAMENTATION. lam-en-ta'-shun. See BURIAL, III,
2; IV, 4, 5, 6. Multi-Version Concordance Lamentation (45 Occurrences). ...
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Lament (44 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. 3. (v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in
complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. ...
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Lamented (19 Occurrences)
... (WEB). Genesis 50:10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the
Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. ...
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Wailing (44 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was
Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there ...
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Lamenting (8 Occurrences)
... n.) of Lament. 2. (n.) Lamentation. ... Isaiah 29:2 And I have sent distress to Ariel,
And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel. ...
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Weeping (237 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Weep. 2. (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding
of tears. ... 6. (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep. Int. ...
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Tyrus (18 Occurrences)
... the midst of thee? (KJV). Ezekiel 27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a
lamentation for Tyrus; (KJV). Ezekiel 27:8 The inhabitants ...
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Mourning (85 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow. ... Isaiah
29:2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. ...
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Wail (50 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing. ... Alas!' and they will call the
farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing. ...
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Loud (222 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are ...
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Generally (7 Occurrences)
... in Jeremiah 48:38 the King James Version as the translation of kullah (Pual of kalah),
"the whole of it," "There shall be lamentation generally (universally ...
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Doleful (2 Occurrences)
... some have suggested "leopard," or "hyena." The older English Versions of the Bible
gives "great owls." The word rendered "doleful lamentation" in Micah 2:4 ...
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Dirge (5 Occurrences)
... Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his
mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation...
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Moaning (9 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). Isaiah 29:2 then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and
lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel. (See JPS RSV). ...
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Mourners (13 Occurrences)
... Amos 5:16 Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, the Lord, In all broad places
'is' lamentation, And in all out-places they say, 'Alas, alas,' And called ...
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Chanted (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Chanted (4 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 1:17 David lamented
with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son (See NAS). ...
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Atad (2 Occurrences)
... his brethren, when on their way from Egypt to Hebron with the remains of their father
Jacob, made for seven days a "great and very sore lamentation." On this ...
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Boughs (29 Occurrences)
... 19:14 And go forth doth fire from a rod of its boughs, Its fruit it hath devoured,
And it hath no rod of strength -- a sceptre to rule, Lamentation it 'is ...
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Main (17 Occurrences)
... rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation. (See RSV NIV). Daniel 11:41 He shall enter also ...
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Lamentations (6 Occurrences)
... to pass, after Israel had been taken away captive and Jerusalem had been laid waste,
that Jeremiah sat weeping, and uttered this lamentation over Jerusalem and ...
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Shoots (32 Occurrences)
... rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation. (See NAS). Ezekiel 31:5 Therefore higher hath ...
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Stem (18 Occurrences)
... strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for
a lamentation. (See RSV). Ezekiel 31:13 All the birds of ...
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Mourn (87 Occurrences)
... Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Genesis 35:8, marg.; Luke 7:38, etc.);
(2) by loud lamentation (Ruth 1:9; 1 Samuel 6:19; 2 Samuel 3:31); (3) by the ...
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Sceptre (20 Occurrences)
... to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT). Ezekiel 21:10 It is sharpened ...
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Rachel (42 Occurrences)
... This passage is also quoted by Matthew as fulfilled in the lamentation at Bethlehem
on account of the slaughter of the infants there at the command of Herod ...
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Scepter (28 Occurrences)
... This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. (WEB WBS NAS RSV NIV).
Ezekiel 21:10 So as to slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened. ...
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Seas (40 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How
art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city ...
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Comforted (56 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are ...
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Ashes (44 Occurrences)
... wallow thyself in ashes" (Jeremiah 6:26), or as Ezekiel in his lamentation for Tyre
pictures her mariners as doing, crying bitterly and `casting up dust upon ...
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Sackcloth (47 Occurrences)
... Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly
come on us. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Fit (47 Occurrences)
... strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for
a lamentation. (See NIV). Ezekiel 39:11 And it shall come ...
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Spoiled (69 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS YLT). Micah 1:8 For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make
a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich. ...
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Rods (76 Occurrences)
... This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. (WEB ASV). Habakkuk 3:9 Thy
bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a'sure word. Selah. ...
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Devoured (81 Occurrences)
... be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). Ezekiel 20:47 and thou ...
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Branch (60 Occurrences)
... scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). Ezekiel 27 ...
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Burial (25 Occurrences)
... The death is announced, as it was of old, by a tumult of lamentation preceded by
a shrill cry, and the weeping and wailing of professional mourners (compare ...
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Ramah (38 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are ...
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Grievous (73 Occurrences)
... 50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan;
and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made ...
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Refused (89 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was
Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there ...
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Voice (651 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are ...
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Vanished (13 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 26:17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are
destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was ...
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Untraveled (1 Occurrence)
... Jeremiah 9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the
pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that ...
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Uri'ah (32 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband
was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. (See RSV). ...
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Undesirable (4 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 48:38 On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation
every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights ...
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Ostriches (8 Occurrences)
... Micah 1:8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will
make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches. ...
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Observed (84 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Genesis 50:10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond
the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. ...
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Jeroboam's (7 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 14:13 And all Israel shall make lamentation for him, and bury him; for he
only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave; because in him there is found some ...
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Job (60 Occurrences)
... (1.) An historical introduction in prose (ch. 1, 2). (2.) The controversy and its
solution, in poetry (ch. 3-42:6). Job's desponding lamentation (ch. ...
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Loudly (31 Occurrences)
... Genesis 50:10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. ...
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Leprosy (51 Occurrences)
... he was required to have his outer garment rent as a sign of deep grief, to go
bareheaded, and to cover his beard with his mantle, as if in lamentation at his ...
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Lamentable (1 Occurrence)

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Likened (9 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell
him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a ...
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Lovingly (7 Occurrences)
... them. (WEY). Acts 20:37 and with loud lamentation they all threw their arms
round his neck, and kissed him lovingly, (WEY). Ephesians ...
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Lamenteth (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Lamenteth (4 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 1:17 And David lamenteth
with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son; (YLT). ...
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Gush (7 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say
unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou ...
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Groan (32 Occurrences)
... A somewhat similar word, haghah, means the complaining sound like that of the cooing
of doves (Isaiah 59:11 Nahum 2:7). Nehi is the sound of lamentation of the ...
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Wailed (11 Occurrences)
... Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the
Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he ...
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Wallow (5 Occurrences)
... ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer
shall suddenly come on us. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS). Jeremiah ...
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Wouldn't (67 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are ...
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Imposed (16 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 26:17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are
destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was ...
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Inhabitress (12 Occurrences)
... shame. The inhabitress of Zaanan is not come forth for the lamentation of
Beth-ezel: he will take from you its shelter. (DBY). Micah ...
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Fisherman (1 Occurrence)
... Figurative: Fish were largely used as food (Habakkuk 1:16), hence, the lamentation
of the fishermen, who provided for all, typified general desolation (Isaiah ...
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Fouledst (1 Occurrence)
... Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say
unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale ...
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Farmer (17 Occurrences)
... Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are
skillful in lamentation to wailing. (WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Fouled (2 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell
him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a ...
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Fisher (1 Occurrence)
... Figurative: Fish were largely used as food (Habakkuk 1:16), hence, the lamentation
of the fishermen, who provided for all, typified general desolation (Isaiah ...
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Flowings (9 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou
hast said unto him: A young lion of nations thou hast been like, And thou ...
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Threshing (57 Occurrences)
... Genesis 50:10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. ...
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Threshingfloor (18 Occurrences)
... Genesis 50:10 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 ...
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Thrashing (2 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell
him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a ...
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Threshing-floor (36 Occurrences)
... Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the
Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he ...
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Tammuz (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor
of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. ...
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Tears (58 Occurrences)
... Eastern peoples show none of the restraint of emotion in lamentation which is
characteristic of modern Occidentals, and there are many records of this ...
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Removes (7 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with
a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion ...
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Renowned (15 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 26:17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are
destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was ...
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Refuses (21 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 31:15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter
weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for ...
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Refusing (21 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was
Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there ...
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Rahel (1 Occurrence)
... Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her ...
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Renown (24 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 26:17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are
destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was ...
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