Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
mourning
Usage: mourning, grieving
Taaniah means “heaviness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8386 תַּאֲנִיָה (ta'aniyah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ta'aniyah (tah-an-ee-yaw') n-f. 1. lamentation [from H578] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include heaviness and lamentation. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ta'aniyah (tah-an-ee-yaw') n-f. 1. lamentation [from H578] KJV: heaviness, mourning. Root(s): H578
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8386. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
mourning
Usage: mourning, grieving
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ta'aniyah, 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 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.
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.
2 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8386.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8386, grouped by book.
Taaniah (Strong's H8386) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "heaviness". ta'aniyah (tah-an-ee-yaw') n-f. 1. lamentation [from H578]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's H8386 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8386 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as heaviness and lamentation. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.