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Lexicon :: Strong's G3997 - penthos

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πένθος
Transliteration
penthos (Key)
Pronunciation
pen'-thos
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strengthened from the alternate of πάσχω (G3958)
mGNT
5x in 1 unique form(s) TR
5x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
31x in 5 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:40,825

Strong’s Definitions

πένθος pénthos, pen'-thos; strengthened from the alternate of G3958; grief:—mourning, sorrow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G3997 in the following manner: sorrow (3x), mourning (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G3997 in the following manner: sorrow (3x), mourning (2x).

  1. mourning

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πένθος pénthos, pen'-thos; strengthened from the alternate of G3958; grief:—mourning, sorrow.
STRONGS G3997:
πένθος, πένθους, τό (πένθω ((?); akin, rather, to πάθος, πένομαι (cf. πένης); see Curtius, p. 53; Vanicek, p. 1165)), from Homer down, the Sept. for אֵבֶל, mourning: James 4:9; Revelation 18:7; Revelation 21:4.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

James
4:9
Revelation
18:7; 21:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3997 matches the Greek πένθος (penthos),
which occurs 31 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim;[fn] it is beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:27 - And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:2 - So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night,[fn] neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:6 - Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:13 - Even in laughter the heart may ache,
and the end of joy may be grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 - Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2 - It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of all mankind,
and the living will lay it to heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:4 - The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:3 - “Give counsel;
grant justice;
make your shade like night
at the height of noon;
shelter the outcasts;
do not reveal the fugitive;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 - At evening time, behold, terror!
Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
and the lot of those who plunder us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 - Your sun shall no more go down,
nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your days of mourning shall be ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26 - O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth,
and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old shall be merry.
I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:17 - Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:4 - They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD,
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like mourners’ bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 - Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord:
“In all the squares there shall be wailing,
and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmers to mourning
and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

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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 the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - For this I will lament and wail;
I will go stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals,
and mourning like the ostriches.
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