Word

κλαίω

klaíō · G2799 · Greek · 40 occurrences

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Meanings

to weep, to wail, to lament, weeping, crying

To weep or wail, with emphasis upon the noise accompanying the weeping

Examples
Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the statement that Jesus had made: “Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
Mark 5:38 They came to the house of the synagogue official, and He saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing.
Mark 5:39 And after entering, He said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child has not died, but is asleep.”

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

39 occurrences in 12 groups

Not stated (participle) 12
Not stated: you (more than one) 9
Not stated: he, she or it 6
Not stated: you (one person) 4
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

6 occurrences in 7 groups

εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
ἐχθρόςenemy 1
ζητέωto seek, to look for 1
καθεύδωto sleep 1
ἀγοράζωto buy 1
ἀποθνήσκωto die 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 6 groups

ἐπίon+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 3
ἐπίon+ ἑαυτοῦhimself, herself, itself 1
ἐπίon+ ἐγώI, we 1
μετάwith, after+ κλαίωto weep 1
παράfrom, with, beside+ πούςfoot 1
πρόςto, toward, with+ μνημεῖονgrave 1

With adverbsAdverbs

13 occurrences in 8 groups

μήnot 5
νῦνnow 2
πικρῶςbitterly 2
ἐκεῖthere 1
ἔξωoutside 1
καίand 1

What is done to itIt is the object

12 occurrences in 6 groups

λέγωto say 5
ἔπωto say 3
εἴδωto know 2
εἰσέρχομαιto enter, to go into, to come into 1
θεωρέωto see, to look at, to observe 1
χαίρωto rejoice 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

κλαίωto weep 1
μακάριοςblessed, happy 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κλαίωto weep 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μετάwith, after 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

בָּכָה bâkâh · H1058 · to cry, to weep, to lament: Hebrew בָּכָה (bâkâh, H1058) is the standard Hebrew verb for weeping/mourning that Greek κλαίω (klaíō, G2799) translates in LXX contexts, both denoting audible weeping or lamentation rather than silent tears.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To weep, to wail, to lament, weeping, crying25.138: κλαίω describes weeping or wailing aloud. Matthew 2:18 quotes Jeremiah’s lament over the slaughtered children of Bethlehem, “A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN,” the κλαίω naming this loud, grief-stricken wailing.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κλαίωklaíō · G2799κλαυθμός klauthmós · G2805 · to weep, to wail, to lament · 9×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect ἔκλαιον; future κλαύσω (Lk 6:25; Jn 16:20; and Tr WH text in Rev 18:9, for…

imperfect ἔκλαιον; future κλαύσω (Lk 6:25; Jn 16:20; and Tr WH text in Rev 18:9, for κλαύσομαι. more common in Greek writ, especially the earlier, and found in Lev 10:6; Joel 2:17, and according to most editions in Rev 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: Mk 14:72; Mk 16:10; Lk 7:13, Lk 7:38; Jn 11:31, Jn 11:33; Jn 20:11, Jn 20:13, Jn 20:15; Acts 9:39; Acts 21:13; Rev. (); Rev 18:15, ; πολλά, for which L T Tr WH πολύ, Rev 5:4; πικρῶς, Mt 26:75; Lk 22:62; weeping as the sign of pain and grief for the thing signified (i. e. for pain and grief), Lk 6:21, Lk 6:25 (opposed to γελαν); Jn 16:20; Rom 12:15 (opposed to χαίρειν); Phm 3:18; 1 Cor 7:30; Jas 4:9; Jas 5:1; of those who mourn the dead: Mk 5:38; Lk 7:32; Lk 8:52; ἐπί τίνι, over anyone, Lk 19:41 R G (Sir. 22:11); also joined with πενθεῖν, Rev 18:11 R G L; κλαίειν ἐπί τινα, Lk 19:41 L T Tr WH; ; joined with κόπτεσθαι followed by ἐπί τινα, Rev 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.): Mt 2:18, and Rec. in Rev 18:9.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Laugh, Cry, Groan40 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0