# סָפַד (safad)

Israeli respelling: sa-fad. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5594. 30 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail

King James renderings: lament, mourn(-er), wail.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/safad-h5594

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 23:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/23/2) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/10) — 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…
- [1 Samuel 25:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/1) — And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, an…
- [1 Samuel 28:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/28/3) — 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 f…
- [2 Samuel 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/1/12) — 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…
- [2 Samuel 3:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/31) — 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. A…
- [2 Samuel 11:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/26) — And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
- [1 Kings 13:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/29) — 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,…
- [1 Kings 13:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/30) — And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
- [1 Kings 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/13) — 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…
- [1 Kings 14:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/18) — 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 th…
- [Ecclesiastes 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/4) — A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- [Ecclesiastes 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/5) — 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 grasshoppe…
- [Isaiah 32:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/12) — They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
- [Jeremiah 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/4) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/5) — 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 th…
- [Jeremiah 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/6) — 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 m…
- [Jeremiah 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/18) — Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! o…
- [Jeremiah 25:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/33) — 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,…
- [Jeremiah 34:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/34/5) — 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 t…
- [Jeremiah 49:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/3) — 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 the…
- [Ezekiel 24:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/16) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 24:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/23) — 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 iniqui…
- [Joel 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/13) — 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…
- [Micah 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/8) — 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.
- [Micah 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/11) — Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he sh…
- [Zechariah 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/5) — 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 se…
- [Zechariah 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/10) — 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 lo…
- [Zechariah 12:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/12) — 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 Nat…