Threneo means “lament” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2354 — chur (“Hur”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2354 θρηνέω (threneo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. threneo (thray-neh'-o) v. 1. to bewail [from G2355] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include lamented, mourned, bewailed, and lament. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
threneo (thray-neh'-o) v. 1. to bewail [from G2355] KJV: lament, mourn Root(s): G2355
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to lament
Usage: θρηνέω, -ῶ (θρῆνος), [in LXX chiefly for יָלַל hi., also for קַיִן pit., etc. ;] __1. intrans., to lament, wail: Mat.11:17, Luk.7:32, Jhn.16:20. __2. Trans., to bewail: with accusative of person(s), Luk.23:27.† SYN.: κλαίω, κόπτομαι, λυπέομαι, πενθέω (see Tr., Syn., lxv). (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render threneo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G2354 (θρηνέω) appears 26 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
and it was an ordinance in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went from year to year to bewail the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days in a year.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.
And the king mourned over Abner, and said, Shall Abner die according to the death of Nabal?
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.
Then his wife said unto him, My son is dead, seeing he stayeth long; and she began to bewail him, and said,
But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat in the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2354.
and it was an ordinance in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went from year to year to bewail the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days in a year.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.
And the king mourned over Abner, and said, Shall Abner die according to the death of Nabal?
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Thus saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.
And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.
The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.
And he brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and, behold, there were women sitting there lamenting for Tammuz.
There is a lamentation, and thou shalt utter it; and the daughters of the nations shall utter it, even for Egypt, and they shall mourn for it over all the strength thereof, saith the Lord God.
Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit.
Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness are removed from your mouth.
Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloth, ye that minister to God: for the meat offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.
In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.
Lament, ye that inhabit the city that has been broken down, for all the people has become like Canaan; and all that were exalted by silver have been utterly destroyed.
There is a voice of the shepherds mourning; for their greatness is brought low: a voice of roaring lions; for the pride of Jordan is brought down.
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.
Then his wife said unto him, My son is dead, seeing he stayeth long; and she began to bewail him, and said,
But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat in the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,
But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, And a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed.
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Threneo (Strong's G2354) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lament". threneo (thray-neh'-o) v. 1. to bewail [from G2355]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G2354 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2354 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lamented, mourned, bewailed, and lament. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2354, with linked reader references where each row is available.