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lamentation

Meaning of “lamentation”

Expression of sorrow; cries of grief; the act of bewailing.

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25 occurrences24 verses10 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 50:10

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Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Amos 8:10 · retained source text

And I will turne your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and I will bring vp sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Micah 2:4
¶ In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Micah 2:4 · retained source text

¶ In that day shall one take vp a parable against you, and lament with a dolefull lamentation, and say, We be vtterly spoiled: hee hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he remoued it from me? turning away hee hath diuided our fields.

1611 marginal noteHeb. with a lamentation of lamentations.

1611 marginal noteOr, instead of restoring.

Matthew 2:18
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Matthew 2:18 · retained source text

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Acts 8:2
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 8:2 · retained source text

And deuout men carried Steuen to his buriall, and made great lamentation ouer him.

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