Dirge

1. Lamentation, dirge, elegy

• a lamentation 12
• the lamentation 1
• in lamentations their 1
• the lamentations 1
• lamentation 1
• lamentations 1
• into lamentation 1

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

• Ezekiel 9
• Jeremiah 3
• Amos 2
• 2 Samuel 1
• 2 Chronicles 1

5 books in all.

• To lament (thrēneō)

• 2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
• Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
• Jeremiah 9:10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
• Jeremiah 9:20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
• Ezekiel 2:10And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
• Ezekiel 19:1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

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

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