KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of mourn, meaning to grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 27:41
Complete exact-word concordance
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
And when the mourning was past, Dauid sent, and fet her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but the thing that Dauid had done, displeased the LORD.
1611 marginal noteHeb. was euill in the eies of.
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
And Ioab sent to Tekoah, and fetcht thence a wise woman, and said vnto her, I pray thee, faine thy selfe to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thy selfe with oile, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
And the victorie that day was turned into mourning vnto all the people: for the people heard say that day, how the king was grieued for his sonne.
1611 marginal noteHeb. saluation or deliuerance.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Grieving; lamenting; sorrowing; wearing the appearance of sorrow.
The act of expressing grief or sorrow; also the dress or customary habit of mourners.
