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Strong's G3996 πενθέω (pentheo)

Pentheo means “mourn” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3996 — mabo (“by which came”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3996
Language Greek
Linked Usages 69
Books 30

Strong's G3996 Quick Answer

Strong's G3996 πενθοῦντες is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pentheo (pen-theh'-o) v. 1. to grieve (the feeling or the act) [from G3997] It has 69 linked Bible usages across 30 books. Visible English usage signals include mourn, mourned, and wailing. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
pentheo (pen-theh'-o) v. 1. to grieve (the feeling or the act) [from G3997]
Usage
69 linked usages
Books
30 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
mourn, mourned, and wailing

Meaning and Definition

pentheo (pen-theh'-o) v. 1. to grieve (the feeling or the act) [from G3997] KJV: mourn, (be-)wail Root(s): G3997

Original Word
πενθοῦντες
Morphology
V-PAP-NPM

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3996. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to mourn

Usage: πενθέω, -ῶ [in LXX chiefly for אָבַל ;] to mourn (for), lament; __(a) intrans. : Mat.5:4 (5) Mat.9:15, 1Co.5:2; π. καὶ κλαίειν, Mat.16:10, Luk.6:25, Jas.4:9, Rev.18:15, 19; before ἐπί, with accusative, Rev.18:11; __(b) trans., with accusative, 2Co.12:21.† SYN.: see: θρηνέω (AS)

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How Strong's G3996 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's G3996, 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.

mourn Matthew 5:4 mourned Mark 16:10 wailing Revelation 18:15

How Strong's G3996 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 44 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3996 (πενθοῦντες) appears 64 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3996 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G3996 in the New Testament

10 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 5:4 KJV

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 9:15 KJV

And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

Mark 16:10 KJV

And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

Strong's G3996 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

44 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 23:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And Sarah died in the city of Arba, which is in the valley, this is Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to lament for Sarah and to mourn.

Genesis 37:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37:35 Septuagint / Brenton

And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.

Strong's G3996 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:30 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

1 Esdras 8:69 Septuagint / Brenton

The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and the Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor their pollutions from the Gentiles, to wit, the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Idumeans.

1 Esdras 9:2 Septuagint / Brenton

and remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.

Usage Excerpts

First 69 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3996.

Genesis 23:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Sarah died in the city of Arba, which is in the valley, this is Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to lament for Sarah and to mourn.
Genesis 37:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 37:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.
Genesis 50:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
Numbers 14:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned exceedingly.
1 Kingdoms 6:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sons of Jechonias were not pleased with the men of Beth-shemesh, because they saw the ark of the Lord; and the Lord smote among them seventy men, and fifty thousand men: and the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted on the people a very great plague.
1 Kingdoms 15:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel did not see Saul again till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned after Saul, and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Kingdoms 16:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Samuel, How long dost thou mourn for Saul, whereas I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil, and come, I will send thee to Jesse, to Bethlehem; for I have seen among his sons a king for me.
2 Kingdoms 13:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai son of Ammihud king of Geshur to the land of Chamaachad: and King David mourned for his son continually.
2 Kingdoms 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab sent to Tekoa, and took thence a cunning woman, and said to her, Mourn, I pray thee, and put on mourning apparel, and anoint thee not with oil, and thou shalt be as a woman mourning for one that is dead thus for many days.
2 Kingdoms 19:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they brought Joab word, saying, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.
1 Chronicles 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
2 Chronicles 35:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Nehemiah 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Nehemiah 8:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Job 14:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But his flesh is in pain, And his soul mourns.
Psalms 34:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I behaved agreeably toward them as if it had been our neighbor or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.
Psalms 77:63 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins mourned not.
Isaiah 3:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.
Isaiah 16:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The plains of Heshbon shall mourn, the vine of Sibmah: swallowing up the nations, trample ye her vines, even to Jazer: ye shall not come together; wander ye in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.
Isaiah 19:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.
Isaiah 24:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.
Isaiah 24:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
Isaiah 33:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The land mourns; Lebanon is ashamed: Sharon is become marshes; Galilee shall be laid bare, and Carmel.
Isaiah 61:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompense; to comfort all that mourn;
Isaiah 61:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.
Isaiah 66:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all ye that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that now mourn over her:
Jeremiah 4:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above: for I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.
Jeremiah 12:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it? the beasts and birds are utterly destroyed; because the people said, God shall not see our ways.
Jeremiah 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Judea has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jeremiah 16:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.
Jeremiah 23:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so also their strength.
Jeremiah 38:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Prepare thyself, O Zion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to thy cities.
Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The ways of Zion mourn, Because there are none that come to the feast: All her gates are ruined: Her priests groan, Her virgins are led captive, And she is in bitterness in herself.
Lamentations 2:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has turned to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out the measuring line, He has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: Therefore the bulwark mourned, And the wall was weakened with it.
Ezekiel 31:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Lebanon saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Daniel 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
Hosea 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:
Hosea 10:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of Aven; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from them.
Joel 1:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The meat offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
Joel 1:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
Amos 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, The Lord has spoken out of Zion, and has uttered his voice out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up.
Amos 8:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not everyone who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.
Amos 9:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, is he that takes hold of the land, and causes it to shake, and all that inhabit it shall mourn; and its destruction shall go up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.
Matthew 5:4 New Testament, KJV
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 9:15 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Mark 16:10 New Testament, KJV
And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
Luke 6:25 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
1 Corinthians 5:2 New Testament, KJV
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
2 Corinthians 12:21 New Testament, KJV
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
James 4:9 New Testament, KJV
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Revelation 18:11 New Testament, KJV
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
Revelation 18:15 New Testament, KJV
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
Revelation 18:19 New Testament, KJV
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
1 Esdras 1:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
1 Esdras 8:69 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and the Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor their pollutions from the Gentiles, to wit, the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Idumeans.
1 Esdras 9:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.
Judith 16:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasseh her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.
1 Maccabees 1:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness.
1 Maccabees 2:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned very sore.
1 Maccabees 2:39 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they mourned for them right sore.
1 Maccabees 9:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying,
1 Maccabees 12:52 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereupon they all came into the land of Judea peaceably, and there they bewailed Jonathan, and them that were with him, and they were sore afraid; wherefore all Israel made great lamentation.
1 Maccabees 13:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many days.
Wisdom of Sirach 7:34 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Fail not to be with them that weep, And mourn with them that mourn.
Wisdom of Sirach 48:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last, And he comforted them that mourned in Zion.
Wisdom of Sirach 51:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
My soul hath wrestled with her, And in my doings I was exact: I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above, And bewailed my ignorances of her.
Daniel 1:40 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 152 1:40 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3996, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3996 FAQ

What does pentheo (πενθέω) mean?

Pentheo (Strong's G3996) is a Greek word most simply glossed "mourn". pentheo (pen-theh'-o) v. 1. to grieve (the feeling or the act) [from G3997]

How many times is pentheo (πενθέω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 69 linked usages for Strong's G3996 across 30 books.

Where can I study pentheo (πενθέω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3996 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate pentheo (πενθέω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mourn, mourned, and wailing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3996 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 44 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3996, with linked reader references where each row is available.