Strong's #5594: caphad (pronounced saw-fad')

a primitive root; properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail:--lament, mourn(-er), wail.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâphad

1) to wail, lament, mourn

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to wail, lament

1a2) wailers (participle)

1b) (Niphal) to be lamented, be bewailed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 30 times:

 

Genesis 23:2: "of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep"
Genesis 50:10: "is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation:"
1 Samuel 25:1: "and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David"
1 Samuel 28:3: "was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul"
2 Samuel 1:12: " And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for"
2 Samuel 3:31: "your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David"
2 Samuel 11:26: "Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband."
1 Kings 13:29: "came to the city, to mourn and to bury"
1 Kings 13:30: "his carcass in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!"
1 Kings 14:13: "And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam"
1 Kings 14:18: "And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke"
Ecclesiastes 3:4: "and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
Ecclesiastes 12:5: "goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:"
Isaiah 32:12: " They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful"
Jeremiah 4:8: "this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger"
Jeremiah 16:4: "of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon"
Jeremiah 16:5: "of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away"
Jeremiah 16:6: "they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them: nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald"
Jeremiah 22:18: "king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister!"
Jeremiah 22:18: "or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!"
Jeremiah 25:33: "even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor"
Jeremiah 34:5: "before thee, so shall they burn odors for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I"
Jeremiah 49:3: "of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king"
Ezekiel 24:16: "of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears"
Ezekiel 24:23: "and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities,"
Joel 1:13: "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night"
Micah 1:8: "Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make"
Zechariah 7:5: "saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy"
Zechariah 12:10: "me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only"
Zechariah 12:12: "And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David"