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Lexicon :: Strong's G2799 - klaiō

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κλαίω
Transliteration
klaiō (Key)
Pronunciation
klah'-yo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
mGNT
40x in 20 unique form(s) TR
40x in 20 unique form(s) LXX
114x in 30 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:722,436

Strong’s Definitions

κλαίω klaíō, klah'-yo; of uncertain affinity; to sob, i.e. wail aloud (whereas G1145 is rather to cry silently):—bewail, weep.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 40x

The KJV translates Strong's G2799 in the following manner: weep (39x), bewail (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 40x
The KJV translates Strong's G2799 in the following manner: weep (39x), bewail (1x).

  1. to mourn, weep, lament

    1. weeping as the sign of pain and grief for the thing signified (i.e. for the pain and grief)

    2. of those who mourn for the dead

  2. to weep for, mourn for, bewail, one

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κλαίω klaíō, klah'-yo; of uncertain affinity; to sob, i.e. wail aloud (whereas G1145 is rather to cry silently):—bewail, weep.
STRONGS G2799:
κλαίω; imperfect ἔκλαιον; future κλαύσω (Luke 6:25; John 16:20; and Tr WH text in Revelation 18:9, for κλαύσομαι. more common in Greek writ, especially the earlier, and found in Leviticus 10:6; Joel 2:17, and according to most editions in Revelation 18:9; cf. Krüger, § 40 under the word, i., p. 175f; Kühner, § 343, under the word, i., p. 847; (Veitch, under the word); Buttmann, 60 (53); (Winer's Grammar, 87 (83))); 1 aorist ἔκλαυσα; the Sept. frequently for בָּכָה; (from Homer down); to mourn, weep, lament;
a. intransitive: Mark 14:72; Mark 16:10; Luke 7:13, 38; John 11:31, 33; John 20:11, 13, 15; Acts 9:39; Acts 21:13; Rev. (Revelation 5:5); Revelation 18:15, 19; πολλά, for which L T Tr WH πολύ, Revelation 5:4; πικρῶς, Matthew 26:75; Luke 22:62; weeping as the sign of pain and grief for the thing signified (i. e. for pain and grief), Luke 6:21, 25 (opposed to γελαν); John 16:20; Romans 12:15 (opposed to χαίρειν); Philippians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 7:30; James 4:9; James 5:1; of those who mourn the dead: Mark 5:38; Luke 7:32; Luke 8:52; ἐπί τίνι, over anyone, Luke 19:41 R G (Sir. 22:11); also joined with πενθεῖν, Revelation 18:11 R G L; κλαίειν ἐπί τινα, Luke 19:41 L T Tr WH; Luke 23:28; joined with κόπτεσθαι followed by ἐπί τινα, Revelation 18:9 T Tr WH.
b. transitive, τινα, to weep for, mourn for, bewail, one (cf. Buttmann, § 131, 4; Winer's Grammar, 32, 1 γ.): Matthew 2:18, and Rec. in Revelation 18:9.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
10:6
Joel
2:17
Matthew
2:18; 26:75
Mark
5:38; 14:72; 16:10
Luke
6:21; 6:25; 6:25; 7:13; 7:32; 7:38; 8:52; 19:41; 19:41; 22:62; 23:28
John
11:31; 11:33; 16:20; 16:20; 20:11; 20:13; 20:15
Acts
9:39; 21:13
Romans
12:15
1 Corinthians
7:30
Philippians
3:18
James
4:9; 5:1
Revelation
5:4; 5:5; 18:9; 18:9; 18:9; 18:9; 18:11; 18:15; 18:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2799 matches the Greek κλαίω (klaiō),
which occurs 114 times in 101 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 21:16–2Sa 12:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[fn] began to sob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:24 - He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:14 - Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:15 - And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father[fn] and wept for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt[fn] and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the LORD has destroyed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:4 - The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10 - Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:13 - Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:18 - “Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:1 - That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:29 - and when the whole community learned that Aaron had died, all the Israelites mourned for him thirty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:6 - Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:45 - You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - When the angel of the LORD had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - “You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:17 - She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26 - Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - The people went to Bethel,[fn] where they sat before God until evening, raising their voices and weeping bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:9 - May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14 - At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:7 - This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:10 - In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:4 - When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:5 - Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, “What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?” Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:16 - Saul and his son Jonathan and the men with them were staying in Gibeah[fn] in Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Mikmash.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16 - When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:4 - So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12 - They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:24 - “Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and finery, who adorned your garments with ornaments of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16 - Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:32 - They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept also.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.” And all the people wept over him again.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:21 - His attendants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!”

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