מִסְפֵּד
miçpêd · mis-pade'
a lamentation
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5594 (סָפַד);
a lamentation
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: lamentation, one mourneth, mourning, wailing.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to support and uphold › to speak, the word › the doorway, the way in
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to support and uphold that works to speak, the word of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִסְפֵּד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- lamentation2 · 13%
- and wailing1 · 6%
- for me my mourning1 · 6%
- and to mourning1 · 6%
- there shall be lamentation1 · 6%
- wailing1 · 6%
- and with mourning1 · 6%
- thus; wailing1 · 6%
- to wailing1 · 6%
- shall be wailing1 · 6%
- a wailing1 · 6%
- in the mourning1 · 6%
- and they shall mourn1 · 6%
- mourning1 · 6%
- as the mourning1 · 6%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.