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Lexicon :: Strong's G3997 - penthos

Aa
πένθος
Transliteration
penthos (Key)
Pronunciation
pen'-thos
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strengthened from the alternate of πάσχω (G3958)
mGNT
5x in 1 unique form(s) TR
5x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
31x in 5 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:40,825

Strong’s Definitions

πένθος pénthos, pen'-thos; strengthened from the alternate of G3958; grief:—mourning, sorrow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G3997 in the following manner: sorrow (3x), mourning (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G3997 in the following manner: sorrow (3x), mourning (2x).

  1. mourning

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πένθος pénthos, pen'-thos; strengthened from the alternate of G3958; grief:—mourning, sorrow.
STRONGS G3997:
πένθος, πένθους, τό (πένθω ((?); akin, rather, to πάθος, πένομαι (cf. πένης); see Curtius, p. 53; Vanicek, p. 1165)), from Homer down, the Sept. for אֵבֶל, mourning: James 4:9; Revelation 18:7; Revelation 21:4.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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All rights reserved. Used by permission.

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

James
4:9
Revelation
18:7; 21:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3997 matches the Greek πένθος (penthos),
which occurs 31 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 made a mourning for his father seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:27 - And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:2 - And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people; for the people heard say that day, The king grieveth for his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 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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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:6 -
Blessings are upon the head of the righteous;
But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:13 -
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful;
And the end of mirth is heaviness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 - All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2 - It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:4 - The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:3 - Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 - At eventide, behold, terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26 - 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 destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - neither shall men break bread 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 -
The joy of our heart is ceased;
Our dance is turned into mourning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:17 - Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:4 - They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 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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