Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
mourning
Usage: wailing
Strong's Number
H4553
Language
Hebrew
Linked Usages
13
Books
10
Strong's H4553 Quick Answer
Strong's H4553 מִספֵּד (micepd) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. micepd (mis-pade') n-m. 1. a lamentation [from H5594] It has 13 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include mourning, lamentation, and wailing. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
- Meaning
- micepd (mis-pade') n-m. 1. a lamentation [from H5594]
- Usage
- 13 linked usages
- Books
- 10 indexed books
- Corpus
- Old Testament
- Usage Words
- mourning, lamentation, and wailing
Meaning and Definition
micepd (mis-pade') n-m. 1. a lamentation [from H5594] KJV: lamentation, one mourneth, mourning, wailing. Root(s): H5594
Across Lexicons
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4553. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
How Strong's H4553 Is Translated
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render micepd, 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.
How Strong's H4553 Usage Compares
Indexed coverage includes Old 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 Old Testament with 13 linked usages.
- The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.
Strong's H4553 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 H4553 in the Old Testament
13 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 his father seven days.
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 wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Usage Excerpts
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4553.
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 his father seven days.
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 wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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 spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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, saith the LORD.
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.
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
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 call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
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.
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
All Indexed Usage Links
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4553, grouped by book.
Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament
Strong's H4553 FAQ
What does micped (מִסְפֵּד) mean?
Micped (Strong's H4553) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lamentation". micepd (mis-pade') n-m. 1. a lamentation [from H5594]
How many times is micped (מִסְפֵּד) used in the Bible?
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's H4553 across 10 books.
Where can I study micped (מִסְפֵּד) in context?
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4553 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
What English words translate micped (מִסְפֵּד)?
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mourning, lamentation, and wailing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.