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מִסְפֵּד misped
Hebrew word for “mourning” · Strong’s H4553 · used 16 times in 14 verses
Meaning
wailing
How it is translated
Glosses given for misped in context, with how often each is used:
- wailing 10
- lament 3
- like mourning 1
- mourning 1
- like the mourning 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos | 3 | 1.5 | |
| Zechariah | 3 | 1.0 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Micah | 2 | 1.4 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Esther | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Joel | 1 | 1.0 |
Chapters where it is used most
Amos 5 (2), Micah 1 (2), Zechariah 12 (2), Genesis 50 (1), Esther 4 (1), Psalms 30 (1), Isaiah 22 (1), Jeremiah 6 (1), Jeremiah 48 (1), Ezekiel 27 (1)
Forms
- מספד 8
- ומספד 2
- כמספד 2
- מספדי 1
- ולמספד 1
- ובמספד 1
- המספד 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with misped more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אֵבֶל evel “mourning” 5
- שַׂק saq “sackcloth” 5
- סָפַד saphad “to mourn” 3
- בְּכִי bekhi “weeping” 3
- חָגַר chagar “to gird” 3
- קׇרְחָה qorchah “bald spot” 2
- יָחִיד yachid “only” 2
- צוֹם tsom “fast” 2
- אֵפֶר epher “ashes” 2
- רְחוֹב rechov “street/plaza” 2
- נְאֻם neum “utterance” 2
- אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 2
Key verses
The verses using misped that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 50:10 — And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for…
- Esther 4:3 — And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and…
- Psalms 30:11 — Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
- Isaiah 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Jeremiah 6:26 — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the…
- Jeremiah 48:38 — There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure,…
- Ezekiel 27:31 — And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
- Joel 2:12 — Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
- Amos 5:16 — Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall…
- Micah 1:8 — Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
- Micah 1:11 — Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you…
- Zechariah 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they…
See all 14 verses in the Word Atlas
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