סָפַד
sāpad
wail
Strong's H5594VerbHebrewTWOT 1530

סָפַד (sāpad) is a Hebrew verb meaning wail. It appears 32 times in 11 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5594).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1530)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1530)wail, lament; mourn, mourner
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

סָפַד verb: wail, lament

Strong's H5594 סָפַד: properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
KJV:lament, mourn(-er), wail.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 23:21 Samuel 25:12 Samuel 1:12

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