STRONGS G2354:
θρηνέω,
-ῶ: imperfect
ἐθρήνουν; future
θρηνήσω; 1 aorist
ἐθρήνησα;
(θρῆνος, which see); from Homer down;
Sept. for
הֵילִיל,
קונֵן, etc.;
1. to lament, to mourn:
John 16:20; of the singers of dirges, [
to wail],
Matthew 11:17;
Luke 7:32.
2. to bewail, deplore:
τινά,
Luke 23:27.
[On θρηνέω to lament, κόπτομαι to smite the breast in grief, λυπέομαι to be pained, saddened, πενθέω to mourn, cf. Trench § 65 and see κλαίω at the end; yet note that in classic Greek λυπ. is the most comprehesive word, designating every species of pain of body or soul; and that πενθέω expresses a self-contained grief, never violent in its manifestations; like our English word "mourn" it is associated by usage with the death of kindred, and like it used pregnantly to suggest that event. See Schmidt vol. 2 ch. 83.]
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