Bible Dictionaries
Lament
King James Dictionary
LAMENT', L. lamentor.
1. To mourn to grieve to weep or wail to express sorrow.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chronicles 35 .
2. To regret deeply to feel sorrow.
LAMENT', To bewail to mourn for to bemoan to deplore.
One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
LAMENT', n. L. lamentum. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries lamentation a weeping.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.
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Entry for 'Lament'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/lament.html.