To mourn
סָפַדStrong’s H5594saphad (sa-phad)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saphad is the Hebrew word usually translated “mourn”, “mourned” and “people will mourn”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?”
Meaning
- To wail, lament, mourn(Qal) · (Niphal) to be lamented, be bewailed
How it's translated
- to mourn 3
- and they mourned 3
- people will mourn 3
- and they will mourn 2
- mourn 2
- they will be mourned 2
- you must lament 2
- and they lamented 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 8
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Samuel 3
- Zechariah 3
- Genesis 2
- 1 Samuel 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:10In contextAnd I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
- Zechariah 12:12In contextAnd the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
- Genesis 23:2And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Genesis 50:10And 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 mourning for his father seven days.
- 1 Samuel 25:1And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
- 1 Samuel 28:3Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
Hebrew dictionary
סָפַד saphad · to mourn
1) to wail, lament, mourn 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wail, lament 1a2) wailers (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be lamented, be bewailed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mourn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOURN, verb intransitive
[Latin maereo.]
- To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful.“Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep” Genesis 23:2“Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted” Matthew 5:4
- To wear the customary habit of sorrow.
All definitions and other forms of “mourn”
MOURN, verb transitive
To grieve for; to lament. But there is an ellipsis of for, the verb not being transitive. When we say, we mourn a friend or a child, the real sense and complete phrase is, we mourn for a friend, or mourn for the loss of a friend. 'He mourn'd his rival's ill success, ' that is, he mourned for his rival's ill success.
- To utter in a sorrowful manner.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.