Mourning
תַּאֲנִיָּהStrong’s H8386taaniyyah (ta-a-niy-yah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taaniyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “mourning”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.”
Meaning
- Mourning, grieving
How it's translated
- mourning 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּאֲנִיָּה taaniyyah · mourning
mourning, grieving
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mourning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOURNING, participle present
tense Grieving; lamenting; sorrowing; wearing the appearance of sorrow.
All definitions and other forms of “mourning”
MOURNING, noun
The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
- The dress or customary habit worn by mourners.
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.