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Strong's #2354 - θρηνέω
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- to mourn, to lament
- of singers of dirges, [to wail]
- to bewail, deplore
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θρην-έω,
fut. -ήσω A. Ag. 1541 (anap.), S. Aj. 632 (lyr.): aor. 1 -ησα E. Tr. [111]: —
Med. (v. infr. 2): impers. in pf. Pass. (v. infr.): (θρῆνος): —
1. sing a dirge, wail, Μοῦσαι δ' ἐννέα πᾶσαι ἀμειβόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ θρήνεον Od. 24.61; τίς ὁ θρηνήσων; A. Ag. l.c.; τίς.. ἔσθ' ὁ θρηνῶν; Ar. Nu. 1260; θ. πρὸς τύμβον A. Ch. 926; θ. καὶ ὀδύρεσθαι Pl. Ap. 38d; πρὸς σφᾶς αὐτούς Isoc. 8.128: c.acc.cogn., στονόεσσαν ἀοιδὴν.. ἐθρήνεον were singing a doleful dirge, Il. 24.7221; γόον θ. A. Fr. 291; ὀξυτόνους ᾠδάς S. Aj. l.c.; ἐπῳδάς ib. 582; ὕμνους, of the nightingale, Ar. Av. 211 (lyr.); φθόγγους ἀλύρους Alex. 162.7: — Pass., ἅλις μοι τεθρήνηται γόοις S. Ph. 1401; ἱκανῶς τεθρήνηται Luc. Cat. 20.
2. c.acc., bewail, θ. πόνους A. Pr. 615; τὸν θάνατον Pl. Phd. 85a; ὅσα τὸν.. ἐμὸν θρηνῶ πατέρα S. El. 94 (anap.), cf. 530, Luke 23:27, etc.; τὸν φύντα E. Fr. 449: — so also Med., ἄκος γὰρ οὐδὲν τόνδε θρηνεῖσθαι A. Pr. 43: — Pass., to be lamented, S. Aj. 852, Fr. 653.
θρηνέω, θρήνῳ: imperfect ἐθρήνουν; future θρηνήσω; 1 aorist ἐθρήνησα; (θρῆνος, which see); from Homer down; the Sept. for הֵילִיל, קונֵן, etc.;
1. to lament, to mourn: John 16:20; of the singers of dirges (to wail), Matthew 11:17; Luke 7:32.
2. to bewail, deplore: τινα, Luke 23:27. (On θρηνέω to lament, λόπτομαι to smite the breast in grief, λυπέομαι to be pained, saddened, πενθέω to mourn, cf. Trench, § 65, and see κλαίω at the end; yet note that in classic Greek λύπεσθαι is the most comprehensive word, designating every species of pain of body or soul; and that πενθέω expresses a self-contained grief, never violent in its manifestations; like our English word mourn it is associated by usage with the death of kindred, and like it used pregnantly to suggest that event. See Schmidt, vol. ii., chapter 83.)
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θρηνέω , -ῶ
(< θρῆνος ),
[in LXX chiefly for H3213 hi., also for H7014 pit., etc.;]
1. intrans., to lament, wail: Matthew 11:17, Luke 7:32, John 16:20.
2. Trans., to bewail: c. acc pers., Luke 23:27.†
SYN.: κλαίω G2799, κόπτομαι G2875, λυπέομαι G3076, πενθέω G3996 (v. Tr., Syn., lxv).
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A new reference for this verb occurs in the much mutilated classical fragment, P Peti I. 9.6 : cf. Arehiv iii. p. 165. For the subst. θρηνητής see BGU I. 34 recto iv. 4 εἰς πεῖν τοῖς παιδίοις α ̄, θρηνητῇ α ̄, where the numerals probably refer to jars of wine : and cf. the use of θρήνωμα (= θρήνημα) in P Tebt I. 140 (B.C. 72) θρηνώματα εἰς τὸν Ὀσῖριν β ̄. MGr θρῆνος, ";a dirge.";
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