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Lexicon :: Strong's G3996 - pentheō

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πενθέω
Transliteration
pentheō (Key)
Pronunciation
pen-theh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:40,825

Trench's Synonyms: lxv. λυπέομαι, πενθέω, θρηνέω, κόπτω.

Strong’s Definitions

πενθέω penthéō, pen-theh'-o; from G3997; to grieve (the feeling or the act):—mourn, (be-)wail.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G3996 in the following manner: mourn (7x), wail (2x), bewail (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G3996 in the following manner: mourn (7x), wail (2x), bewail (1x).

  1. to mourn

  2. to mourn for, lament one

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πενθέω penthéō, pen-theh'-o; from G3997; to grieve (the feeling or the act):—mourn, (be-)wail.
STRONGS G3996:
πενθέω, πένθω; future πενθήσω; 1 aorist ἐπένθησα (πένθος); from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for אָבַל; to mourn;
a. intransitive: Matthew 5:4 (Matthew 5:5); Matthew 9:15; 1 Corinthians 5:2; πενθεῖν καί κλαίειν, Mark 16:10; Luke 6:25; James 4:9; Revelation 18:15, 19; ἐπί τίνι, over one, Revelation 18:11 R G L (Isaiah 66:10); ἐπί τινα, ibid. T Tr WH (2 Samuel 13:37; 2 Chronicles 35:24, etc.).
b. transitive, to mourn for, lament, one: 2 Corinthians 12:21 (cf. Winers Grammar, 635f (590); Buttmann, § 131, 4. Synonym: see θρηνέω, at the end.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
13:37
2 Chronicles
35:24
Isaiah
66:10
Matthew
5:4; 5:5; 9:15
Mark
16:10
Luke
6:25
1 Corinthians
5:2
2 Corinthians
12:21
James
4:9
Revelation
18:11; 18:15; 18:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3996 matches the Greek πενθέω (pentheō),
which occurs 48 times in 44 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34 - And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:39 - And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35 - And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Jehovah repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - And Jehovah said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:37 - But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that hath a long time mourned for the dead:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:1 - And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:22 - And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:4 - And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto Jehovah your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22 -
But his flesh upon him hath pain,
And his soul within him mourneth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:14 -
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother:
I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 -
Fire devoured their young men;
And their virgins had no marriage-song.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:26 - And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8 - And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:4 - The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:7 - The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9 - The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:2 - to proclaim the year of Jehovah’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:3 - to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:10 - Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:28 - For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:2 - Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 - For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 - Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 -
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly;
All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh:
Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8

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Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;
He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:2 - In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 - Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:9 - The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:10 - The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 - For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, is he that toucheth the land and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt;
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