dakru, dakruon (teardrop)

Meaning

Usually translated “tears” and “tear”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

tears 9
tear 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Luke 2
Acts 2
Hebrews 2
Revelation 2
Mark 1
2 Corinthians 1

7 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Luke 7:38And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:44And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Acts 20:19Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Acts 20:31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Timothy 1:4Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

All 11 verses, by book

Mark 1: 9:24
Luke 2: 7:38 7:44
Acts 2: 20:19 20:31
2 Corinthians 1: 2:4
2 Timothy 1: 1:4
Hebrews 2: 5:7 12:17
Revelation 2: 7:17 21:4

Greek dictionary

δάκρυ, δάκρυον dakru, dakruon · teardrop

δάκρυον (poët. form δάκρυ), -ου, τό, [in LXX for דִּמְעָה ;] a tear: Mrk.9:24 (WH, txt., R, txt. omit), Act.20:19, 31, 2Co.2:4, 2Ti.1:4, Heb.5:7 12:17, Rev.7:17 21:4; metaphorically, dative pl., δάκρυσι (La 2:11, Thuc., vii, 75; Bl., § 9, 3), Luk.7:38, 44.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “tear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TEAR, noun

Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them.
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.

All definitions and other forms of “tear”

TEAR, verb transitive

[Latin tero.]

To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh.
To wound; to lacerate.
To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
To remove by violence; to break up.
To make a violent rent.

TEAR, verb intransitive

To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.

TEAR, noun

A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.