KJV dictionary & concordance

wailing

Meaning of “wailing”

Crying and lamentation expressing grief, mourning, fear, or anguish.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828

16 occurrences15 verses7 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Esther 4:3

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Esther 4:3

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And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Esther 4:3 · retained source text

And in euery prouince, whithersoeuer the kings commaundement, and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sackecloth and ashes were laid vnder many.

Jeremiah 9:10

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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

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The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Jeremiah 9:10 · retained source text

For the mountaines will I take vp a weeping and wayling, and for the habitations of the wildernesse a lamentation, because they are burnt vp, so that none can passe through them, neither can men heare the voyce of the cattell, both the foule of the heauens, and the beast are fled, they are gone.

1611 marginal noteOr, pastures

1611 marginal noteOr, desolate

1611 marginal noteHeb. from the foule euen to &c.

Jeremiah 9:18

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And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 9:18 · retained source text

And let them make haste, and take vp a wailing for vs, that our eyes may run down with teares, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Jeremiah 9:19

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For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 9:19 · retained source text

For a voyce of wayling is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled? wee are greatly confounded, because wee haue forsaken the land, because our dwellings haue cast vs out.

Jeremiah 9:20

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Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 9:20 · retained source text

Yet heare the word of the LORD, O ye women, & let your eare receiue the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and euery one her neighbour lamentation.

Ezekiel 7:11

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Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 7:11 · retained source text

Uiolence is risen vp into a rod of wickednesse: none of them shall remaine, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs, neither shall there be wailing for them.

1611 marginal noteOr, their tumultuous persons. Hebr. tumult.

Ezekiel 27:31

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And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

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And they shall make themselues vtterly balde for thee, and girde them with sackecloth, and they shall weepe for thee with bitternesse of heart and bitter wailing.

Ezekiel 27:32

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And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:32 · retained source text

And in their wailing, they shall take vp a lamentation for thee, and lament ouer thee, saying; What citie is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the middest of the sea?

Amos 5:16

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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.

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1611 witness · Amos 5:16 · retained source text

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.

Amos 5:17

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