safad · mourn, lament

What it means

safad (סָפַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mourn, lament”.

Wail over the dead with the customary signs of grief, such as beating the breast.

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 wail for the dead, beating one's chest.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lament ×17
• lamented ×9
• mourn ×4
• be mourned ×1
• mourners ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×4
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×9
• Ezekiel×2
• Joel×1
• Micah×2
• Zechariah×4

• Genesis 23:2

  Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

• 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.

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  Samuel died, and all Israel gathered and lamented for him and buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

• 1 Samuel 28:3

  Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had removed those who call up the dead and the spiritists from the land.

• 2 Samuel 1:12

  They lamented and wept and fasted until the evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of YHWH and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

• 2 Samuel 3:31

  David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, gird on sackcloth, and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bed.

• 2 Samuel 11:26

  When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her spouse.

• 1 Kings 13:29

  The prophet picked up the corpse of the man of Elohim and laid him on the donkey and brought him back; and he came to the city of the old prophet to lament and to bury him.

• 1 Kings 13:30

  He laid his corpse in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Alas, my brother!”

• 1 Kings 14:13

  All Israel will lament for him and bury him, for this one alone of Jeroboam’s house will come to a tomb, because in him something good toward YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, has been found in the house of Jeroboam.

• 1 Kings 14:18

  They buried him, and all Israel lamented for him, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through his servant Ahijah the prophet.

• Ecclesiastes 3:4

  a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance;

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street;

• Isaiah 32:12

  On the breasts they beat themselves in lament, for the fields of delight, for the fruitful vine,

• Jeremiah 4:8

  For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the burning anger of YHWH has not turned back from us.

• Jeremiah 16:4

  Of deaths from diseases they will die; they will not be mourned or buried; as dung on the face of the ground they will be; and by the sword and by famine they will be finished off; and their corpses will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.

• Jeremiah 16:5

  For thus says YHWH: Do not enter a house of funeral feasting, nor go to mourn, nor grieve for them, for I have withdrawn my peace from this people, declares YHWH, the loyal love and the compassion.

• Jeremiah 16:6

  And great and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, nor will people mourn for them, nor will anyone make incisions, nor shave himself bald for them.

• Jeremiah 22:18

  Therefore, thus says YHWH concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They will not lament for him, ‘Alas, my brother!’ and ‘Alas, sister!’ they will not lament for him, ‘Alas, lord!’ and ‘Alas, his majesty!’

• Jeremiah 25:33

  And those slain by YHWH will be on that day from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; they will not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they will be dung on the face of the ground.

• Jeremiah 34:5

  In peace you will die; and as with the burnings for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn for you, and ‘Alas, lord!’ they will lament for you; for I have spoken the word, declares YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 49:3

  Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Gird on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the enclosures; for their king will go into exile, his priests and his princes together.

• Ezekiel 24:16

  “Son of man, look, I am taking from you the delight of your eyes with a plague; and you shall not lament, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.

• Ezekiel 24:23

  and your headdresses will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet; you will not lament and you will not weep, but you will waste away in your iniquities, and you will roar each to his brother.

• Joel 1:13

  Put on sackcloth and lament, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my Elohim; for grain offering and libation are withheld from the house of your Elohim.

• 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.

• Micah 1:11

  Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitant of Zaanan has not come out; the lament of Beth-ezel will take from you its support.

• Zechariah 7:5

  “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh, and this for seventy years, did you truly fast for me, for me?

• Zechariah 12:10

  And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitant of Jerusalem a spirit of favor and of supplications; and they will look to me, whom they have pierced; and they will lament over him like the lament over the only one, and grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over the firstborn.

• Zechariah 12:12

  And the land will lament, family by family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

And 2 more times.