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Lexicon :: Strong's G2355 - thrēnos

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θρῆνος
Transliteration
thrēnos (Key)
Pronunciation
thray'-nos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of θροέω (G2360)
mGNT
0x in 0 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
24x in 5 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

TDNT Reference: 3:148,335

Strong’s Definitions

θρῆνος thrēnos, thray'-nos; from the base of G2360; wailing:—lamentation.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2355 in the following manner: lamentation (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2355 in the following manner: lamentation (1x).

  1. a lamentation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
θρῆνος thrēnos, thray'-nos; from the base of G2360; wailing:—lamentation.
STRONGS G2355:
θρῆνος, -ου, ὁ, (θρέομαι to cry aloud, to lament; cf. German Thräne [(?), rather drönen; Curtius § 317]), a lamentation: Matthew 2:18 Rec. (Sept; for קִינָה, also נְהִי; O. T. Apocrypha; Homer, Pindar, Tragg., Xenophon, Ages. 10, 3; Plato, others.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2355 matches the Greek θρῆνος (thrēnos),
which occurs 24 times in 22 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:17 - Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed they are written in the Laments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
The golden[fn] city ceased!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:29 - ‘Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,
And for the dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation,
Because they are burned up,
So that no one can pass through;
Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle.
Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled;
They are gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:18 - Let them make haste
And take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may run with tears,
And our eyelids gush with water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:20 - Yet hear the word of the LORD, O women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - Thus says the LORD:

“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The princess among the provinces
Has become a slave!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:10 - Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:1 - “Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:14 - Fire has come out from a rod of her branches
And devoured her fruit,
So that she has no strong branch— a scepter for ruling.’ ”
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - ‘And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you:

“How you have perished,
O one inhabited by seafaring men,
O renowned city,
Who was strong at sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:2 - “Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:32 - In their wailing for you
They will take up a lamentation,
And lament for you:
‘What city is like Tyre,
Destroyed in the midst of the sea?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:12 - “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:

“You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

‘You are like a young lion among the nations,
And you are like a monster in the seas,
Bursting forth in your rivers,
Troubling the waters with your feet,
And fouling their rivers.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:16 - ‘This is the lamentation
With which they shall lament her;
The daughters of the nations shall lament her;
They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
And for all her multitude,’
Says the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:1 - Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 - Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this:

“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
And skillful lamenters to wailing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - I will turn your feasts into mourning,
And all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:4 - In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”
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