Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
lamentation
Usage: θρῆνος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for קִינָה ;] a lamentation: Mat.2:18, Rec.† (AS)
Threnos means “lamentation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2355 — chor (“white linen”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2355 θρῆνος (threnos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. threnos (thray`-nos) n. 1. wailing [from the base of G2360] It has 30 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include lamentation. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
threnos (thray`-nos) n. 1. wailing [from the base of G2360] KJV: lamentation Root(s): G2360
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lamentation
Usage: θρῆνος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for קִינָה ;] a lamentation: Mat.2:18, Rec.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render threnos, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2355 (θρῆνος) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
21 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.
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.
And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, And all your mirth into lamentation.
Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness.
Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.
First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2355.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.
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.
And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.
Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.
and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbor a dirge.
A voice was heard in Ramah, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.
And he unrolled it before me: and in it the front and the back were written upon: and there was written in it Lamentation, and mournful song, and woe.
Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,
And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and shall say to thee, How art thou destroyed from out of the sea, the renowned city, that brought her terror upon all her inhabitants.
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Tyre;
And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Tyre, saying,
Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou art a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and as the serpent that is in the sea: and thou didst make assaults with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst trample thy rivers.
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.
Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.
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.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, And all your mirth into lamentation.
Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness.
Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.
Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled, and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn.
The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only the grave at hand.
Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.
Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead.
My son, let tears fall down over the dead, And begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself; And then cover his body according to the custom, And neglect not his burial.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2355, grouped by book.
Threnos (Strong's G2355) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lamentation". threnos (thray`-nos) n. 1. wailing [from the base of G2360]
This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's G2355 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2355 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 lamentation. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 21 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2355, with linked reader references where each row is available.