Bible Dictionary: Bemoan

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

Strong's Hebrew

5110. nud -- to move to and fro, wander, flutter, show grief
... bemoan, flee, get, mourn, make to move, take pity, remove, shake,. A primitive
root; to nod, ie Waver; figuratively, to wander, flee ...
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1058. bakah -- to weep, bewail
... A primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan -- X at all, bewail, complain, make
lamentation, X more, mourn, X sore, X with tears, weep. 1057, 1058. ...
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3034. yadah -- to throw, cast
... out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to
revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing ...
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Library

Of the Union of Our Will to the Divine Good-Pleasure in Spiritual ...
... done without delight and contentment, but even against the pleasure and liking of
all the rest of the heart, which is permitted by love to bemoan itself (if ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iii of the union.htm

On the Difficulties and Duties of the Christian Life.
... He may sit down in sadness, and bemoan himself, and say, in the anguish and bitterness
of his spirit, "They are happy indeed whose souls are awakened unto the ...
/.../scougal/the life of god in the soul of man/part iii on the difficulties.htm

Baptism not to be Presumptously Received it Requires Preceding ...
... A sinner is bound to bemoan himself before receiving pardon, because the time
of repentance is coincident with that of peril and of fear. ...
/.../tertullian/on repentance/chapter vi baptism not to be.htm

Modern Examples of Prayer
... He is always praying," and concerning his and his wife's praying, one wrote: "He
who had heard either pray or speak, might have learned to bemoan his ignorance ...
/.../bounds/the weapon of prayer/xi modern examples of prayer.htm

From his Return to England in 1824, to the Commencement of his ...
... for labor, winch was the case in this place. But in general I sit and bemoan
my own uselessness. I have been a burden to myself in ...
/.../chapter v from his return.htm

His Marriage with Martha Savory.
... poor, barren state. O the many weeks that I have had to sit with my mouth
in the dust to bemoan my own inward misery! My conflict ...
/.../chapter vii his marriage with.htm

Light at Evening Time
... We full often bemoan our circumstances as altogether disastrous, while God, who
seeth the end from the beginning, is working out his ordained purpose. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 62 1916/light at evening time.htm

From Megiddo to Carchemish, 608-605.
... Weep not for the dead, XXII.10 Nor bemoan him, But for him that goeth away weep
sore, For he cometh no more, Nor seeth the land of his birth. ...
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The Minister's Farewell
... without error in his writings. He had, doubtless, sins to confess in private,
and faults to bemoan God. He had, doubtless, sometimes ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/the ministers farewell.htm

A Home Question
... Oh Britain, weep for thy sons and daughters, and bemoan their iniquity before the
Lord, lest like Capernaum they sink to hell amid the full flood of privileges ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/a home question.htm

Thesaurus

Bemoan (9 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Bemoan (9 Occurrences). ... (Root in KJV JPS ASV YLT). Isaiah
51:19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? ...
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Mourn (87 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To wear the customary garb of a mourner. 3. (vt) To grieve for; to lament;
to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail. ... or who will bemoan you? ...
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Lament (44 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or
wail; to mourn. 2. (vt) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. ...
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Affirmation (335 Occurrences)
... dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou
dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan. ...
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Kesitah (3 Occurrences)
... 11 And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former
acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and ...
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Nin'eveh (18 Occurrences)
... Nahum 3:7 And it hath come to pass, Each of thy beholders fleeth from thee, And
hath said: 'Spoiled is Nineveh, Who doth bemoan for her?' Whence do I seek ...
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Funeral (3 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 16:5 For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither
go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this ...
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Traveller (9 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 22:10 Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for
the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his ...
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Exiled (14 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 22:10 Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for
him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. ...
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Mourning-feast (2 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 16:5 For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast,
Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this ...
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Bible Concordance

Bemoan (9 Occurrences)

Job 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
(Root in KJV JPS ASV YLT)

Isaiah 51:19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Jeremiah 4:1 If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 15:5 For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 16:5 For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 22:10 Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 48:17 All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 48:27 And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.
(YLT)

Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Subtopics

Bemoan

Related Terms

Mourn (87 Occurrences)

Lament (44 Occurrences)

Affirmation (335 Occurrences)

Kesitah (3 Occurrences)

Nin'eveh (18 Occurrences)

Funeral (3 Occurrences)

Traveller (9 Occurrences)

Exiled (14 Occurrences)

Mourning-feast (2 Occurrences)