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
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Then shall the virgine reioyce in the daunce, both yoong men and old together: for I will turne their mourning into ioy, and will comfort them, and make them reioyce from their sorrow.
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
The LORD was an enemie: he hath swallowed vp Israel, hee hath swallowed vp all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah mourning and lamentation.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning.
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
And he spread it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
¶ But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
¶ But they that escape of them, shall escape, and shall be on the mountaines like doues of the valleys, all of them mourning, euery one for his iniquitie.
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Forbeare to crie, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head vpon thee, and put on thy shooes vpon thy feete, and couer not thy lips, and eate not the bread of men.
1611 marginal noteHeb. be silent.
1611 marginal noteHeb. vpper lip. And so vers.22.
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Thus saith the LORD God, In the day when hee went downe to the graue, I caused a mourning, I couered the deepe for him, and I restrained the floods therof, and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourne for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
1611 marginal noteHebr. to be blacke.
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
In those dayes, I Daniel was mourning three full weekes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. weeks of dayes.
¶ Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
¶ Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turne yee euen to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
1611 marginal noteIer.4.1.
Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hostes, the LORD saith thus: Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the high wayes, Alas, Alas: and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation, to wailing.
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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.
