Lexicon :: Strong's G2799 - klaiō

and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die! ” While she sat at a distance, she[fn] wept loudly.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! ” And Esau wept loudly.[fn]

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.[fn]

But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.

Joseph hurried out because he was overcome with emotion for his brother, and he was about to weep. He went into an inner room and wept there.

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

Then Joseph, leaning over his father’s face, wept and kissed him.

“‘Say this to Joseph: Please forgive your brothers’ transgression and their sin ​— ​the suffering they caused you.’ Therefore, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when their message came to him.

opened it, and saw him, the child ​— ​and there he was, a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your clothes, or else you will die, and the LORD will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may weep over the fire that the LORD caused.

The riffraff[fn] among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?

Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The LORD was very angry; Moses was also provoked.[fn]

“Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are weeping to me, ‘Give us meat to eat! ’

“Tell the people: Consecrate yourselves in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you wept in the LORD’s hearing, ‘Who will feed us meat? We were better off in Egypt.’ The LORD will give you meat and you will eat.

“but for a whole month ​— ​until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you ​— ​because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and wept before him, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt? ’ ”

Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.

When the whole community saw that Aaron had passed away, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.

An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

“When you returned, you wept before the LORD, but he didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.

“remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.

The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

So Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me and don’t love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven’t explained it to me.”

“Look,” he said,[fn] “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you? ”

They went up, wept before the LORD until evening, and inquired of him, “Should we again attack our brothers the Benjaminites? ”

And the LORD answered, “Fight against them.”

The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD.

So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They wept loudly and bitterly,

“May the LORD grant each of you rest in the house of a new husband.” She kissed them, and they wept loudly.

Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Year after year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival taunted her in this way. Hannah would weep and would not eat.

Deeply hurt, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

When the messengers came to Gibeah, Saul’s hometown, and told the terms to the people, all wept aloud.

Saul, his son Jonathan, and the troops who were with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, and the Philistines were camped at Michmash.

When the servant had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone Ezel, fell facedown to the ground, and paid homage three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept with each other, though David wept more.

When David finished saying these things to him, Saul replied, “Is that your voice, David my son? ” Then Saul wept aloud

David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep.

They mourned, wept, and fasted until the evening for those who died by the sword ​— ​for Saul, his son Jonathan, the LORD’s people, and the house of Israel.

Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul,

who clothed you in scarlet, with luxurious things,

who decked your garments with gold ornaments.

Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he went back.

When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept,

Your hands were not bound,

your feet not placed in bronze shackles.

You fell like one who falls victim to criminals.

And all the people wept over him even more.

His servants asked him, “Why have you done this? While the baby was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate food.”