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Strong's H5594 סָפַד (caphad)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's G5594 — psycho (“wax cold”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H5594
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 29
Books 11

Strong's H5594 Quick Answer

Strong's H5594 סָפַד (caphad) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. caphad (saw-fad') v. 1. (properly) to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief) 2. (generally) to lament It has 29 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include mourn, lament, mourned, lamented, and they. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
caphad (saw-fad') v. 1. (properly) to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief) 2. (generally) to lament
Usage
29 linked usages
Books
11 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
mourn, lament, mourned, lamented, and they

Meaning and Definition

caphad (saw-fad') v. 1. (properly) to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief) 2. (generally) to lament 3. (by implication), to wail [a primitive root] KJV: lament, mourn(-er), wail.

Original Word
סָפַד
Transliteration
caphad
Derivation
Root: ספד
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5594. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to mourn

Usage: 1) to wail, lament, mourn 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wail, lament 1a2) wailers (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be lamented, be bewailed

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How Strong's H5594 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render caphad, 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.

lament Isaiah 32:12 mourn Genesis 23:2 mourned 2 Samuel 1:12 lamented 1 Samuel 25:1 tears Ezekiel 24:16 they Genesis 50:10 wail Micah 1:8

How Strong's H5594 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 29 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5594 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 H5594 in the Old Testament

29 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 23:2 KJV

And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Genesis 50:10 KJV

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.

1 Samuel 25:1 KJV

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Usage Excerpts

First 29 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5594.

Genesis 23:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 50:10 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Samuel 25:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
1 Samuel 28:3 Old Testament, KJV
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
2 Samuel 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel 3:31 Old Testament, KJV
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel 11:26 Old Testament, KJV
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
1 Kings 13:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
1 Kings 13:30 Old Testament, KJV
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
1 Kings 14:13 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
1 Kings 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecclesiastes 12:5 Old Testament, KJV
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Jeremiah 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Jeremiah 16:4 Old Testament, KJV
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 16:5 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
Jeremiah 16:6 Old Testament, KJV
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Jeremiah 22:18 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jeremiah 25:33 Old Testament, KJV
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Jeremiah 34:5 Old Testament, KJV
But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:3 Old Testament, KJV
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Ezekiel 24:16 Old Testament, KJV
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel 24:23 Old Testament, KJV
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Joel 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Micah 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Zechariah 7:5 Old Testament, KJV
Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
Zechariah 12:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah 12:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5594, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H5594 FAQ

What does caphad (סָפַד) mean?

Caphad (Strong's H5594) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lament". caphad (saw-fad') v. 1. (properly) to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief) 2. (generally) to lament

How many times is caphad (סָפַד) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 29 linked usages for Strong's H5594 across 11 books.

Where can I study caphad (סָפַד) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5594 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate caphad (סָפַד)?

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