# H5594 סָפַד

סָפַד (çâphad), Strong’s H5594: 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.. Occurs 32…

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*çâphad* — 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.

Occurs 32 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [סָפַד] vb. wail, lament
- Qal wail, lament
- Niph. they shall not be bewailed

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 23:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=2) — Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep…
- [Genesis 50:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=10) — They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and…
- [1 Samuel 25:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=1) — Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah…
- [1 Samuel 28:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/28?v=3) — Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent…
- [2 Samuel 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=12) — They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for…
- [2 Samuel 3:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=31) — David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth…
- [2 Samuel 11:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/11?v=26) — When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
- [1 Kings 13:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/13?v=29) — 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…
- [1 Kings 13:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/13?v=30) — He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
- [1 Kings 14:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/14?v=13) — All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is…