{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5594",
  "lemma": "סָפַד",
  "transliteration": "çâphad",
  "definition": "properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail",
  "kjv": "lament, mourn(-er), wail.",
  "occurrences": 32,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[סָפַד] vb. wail, lament",
    "Qal wail, lament",
    "Niph. they shall not be bewailed"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 23:2",
      "text": "Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 50:10",
      "text": "They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 25:1",
      "text": "Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 28:3",
      "text": "Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/28?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 1:12",
      "text": "They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 3:31",
      "text": "David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 11:26",
      "text": "When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/11?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 13:29",
      "text": "The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/13?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 13:30",
      "text": "He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/13?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 14:13",
      "text": "All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/14?v=13"
    }
  ],
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