κλαυθμός
klauthmós · G2805 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to weep, to wail, to lament, weeping, crying
To weep or wail, with emphasis upon the noise accompanying the weeping
ExamplesMatthew 2:18 “A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN; AND SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE.”
Matthew 8:12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:42 and they will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πᾶςall, every, each 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φωνήvoice, sound 1
What it is said to bePredicate
8 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐκεῖthere 7
- ἱκανόςconsiderable, many, worthy 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- κραυγή kraugḗ · G2906 · cry, shout, scream
- Both terms belong to the vocabulary of vocal grief expression. The target denotes a more specialized weeping or lamentation — even a song of grief or dirge — while κραυγή denotes a broader loud outcry that can include, but extends beyond, grief contexts. This is a legitimate near-synonym relationship with genuine convergence in the shared sense of vocalized grief and a principled divergence in scope elsewhere.
In the other Testament 2 words
- בְּכִי Bᵉkîy · H1065 · weeping
- Greek term for lamentation/weeping; direct translation equivalent of the Hebrew noun denoting weeping or continuous mourning.
- בָּכָה bâkâh · H1058 · to cry, to weep, to lament
- Hebrew verb בָּכָה (bâkâh, H1058) denotes the act of weeping/lamenting, while Greek noun κλαυθμός (klauthmós, G2805) denotes the resulting state or sound of lamentation; the two function as Cross-Linguistic Equivalents across the verb-noun boundary in contexts of mourning and weeping.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To weep, to wail, to lament, weeping, crying25.138
- κλαυθμός names loud weeping or wailing. Matthew 2:18 quotes Jeremiah’s lament, “A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING,” the κλαυθμός naming this grief-stricken wailing over the slaughtered children.
- Song of grief, dirge33.116
- The same noun can also denote an audible expression of mourning closer to a lament or dirge. Acts 20:37 describes the Ephesian elders as they parted from Paul, “they all began to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,” their κλαυθμός being this outpouring of grief at his departure.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κλαυθμοῦ, ὁ (κλαίω); from Homer down; the Sept. for בְּכִי; weeping, lamentation: Mt…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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