pentheō · mourn

What it means

pentheō (πενθέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “mourn”.

Grieve for the dead or for a loss.

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. To grieve a loss or sin.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• mourn ×6
• mourning ×3
• have mourned ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• James×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 5:4

  Happy are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

• Matthew 9:15

  And Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

• Mark 16:10

  She went and reported it to those who had been with him, as they were mourning and weeping.

• Luke 6:25

  Woe to you who are full now, because you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep.

• 1 Corinthians 5:2

  And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

• 2 Corinthians 12:21

  that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned before and have not changed their minds about the impurity and sexual immorality and debauchery that they practiced.

• James 4:9

  Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into gloom.

• Revelation 18:11

  And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any longer,

• Revelation 18:15

  The merchants of these things, who grew rich from her, will stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,

• Revelation 18:19

  And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, “Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea grew rich from her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.”