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Dictionaries :: Weep, Weeping

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Verb Strong's Number: g2799 Greek: klaio

Weep, Weeping:

is used of "any loud expression of grief," especially in mourning for the dead, Mat 2:18; Mar 5:38, 39; 16:10; Luk 7:13; 8:52 (twice); Jhn 11:31, 33 (twice); Jhn 20:11 (twice), Jhn 20:13, 15; Act 9:39; otherwise, e.g., in exhortations, Luk 23:28; Rom 12:15; Jam 4:9; 5:1; negatively, "weep not," Luk 7:13; 8:52; 23:28; Rev 5:5 (cp. Act 21:13); in Rev 18:9, RV, "shall weep" (AV, "bewail")
See BEWAIL.

A-2 Verb Strong's Number: g1145 Greek: dakruo

Weep, Weeping:

"to shed tears" (dakruon, "a tear"), is used only of the Lord Jesus, Jhn 11:35.

Note: Other synonymous verbs are threneo, "to mourn," of formal lamentation: see BEWAIL, Note (1); alalazo, "to wail;" stenazo, "to groan" (oduromai, "to lament audibly," is not used in NT; see the noun odurmos, "mourning").

B-1 Noun Strong's Number: g2805 Greek: klauthmos

Weep, Weeping:

akin to A, No. 1, denotes "weeping, crying," Mat 2:18; 8:12; 13:42, 50, RV (AV, "wailing"); Mat 22:13; 24:51; 25:30; Luk 13:28; Act 20:37.

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