סָפַד
çâphad · saw-fad'
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
- properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief)
- generally, to lament
- by implication, to wail
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: lament, mourn(-er), wail.
Letters
- 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)
to support and uphold › to speak, the word › the doorway, the way in
To support and uphold that works to speak, the word of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סָפַד 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
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 26 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to mourn3 · 10%
- and they mourned2 · 7%
- shall mourn2 · 7%
- lament2 · 7%
- they shall not be lamented2 · 7%
- they shall not lament2 · 7%
- and there they mourned1 · 3%
- and lamented1 · 3%
- had lamented1 · 3%
- and mourn1 · 3%
- she mourned1 · 3%
- mourned1 · 3%
- and the mourners1 · 3%
- they shall lament1 · 3%
- to lament1 · 3%
- neither shall men lament1 · 3%
- odours for thee; and they will lament1 · 3%
- yet neither shalt thou mourn1 · 3%
- ye shall not mourn1 · 3%
- yourselves, and lament1 · 3%
- therefore i will wail1 · 3%
- and mourned1 · 3%
- for him, as one mourneth1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.