misped · lamentation

What it means

misped (מִסְפֵּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lamentation”.

Public expressions of grief for the dead.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The cries and weeping for the dead or for a disaster, in public.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lamentation ×5
• lamenting ×5
• lament ×3
• mourning ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Esther×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×1
• Amos×3
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a great and very solemn lamentation; and he observed a mourning of seven days for his father.

• Esther 4:3

  And in every province, in the place where the word of the king and his law reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting and weeping and lamenting; sackcloth and ashes were spread out for many.

• Psalms 30:11

  You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

• Isaiah 22:12

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot called on that day to weeping and to lamentation and to baldness and to girding on sackcloth.

• Jeremiah 6:26

  Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

• Jeremiah 48:38

  On all the rooftops of Moab and in its squares all of it is lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 27:31

  And they will make themselves bald for you, and gird on sackcloth, and weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter lamentation.

• Joel 2:12

  Yet even now, declares YHWH, return to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamenting.

• Amos 5:16

  Therefore thus says YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, Adonai: In all the squares there will be lamenting, and in all the streets they will say, “Alas! Alas!” And they will call the farmer to mourning, and to lamenting those skilled in wailing.

• Amos 5:17

  And in all the vineyards there will be lamenting, for I will pass through your midst, says YHWH.

• Micah 1:8

  Because of this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make a lament like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

• Zechariah 12:11

  On that day the lament in Jerusalem will be great, like the lament of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

And 2 more times.