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Wail, Wailing

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

* Notes: (1) For alalazo, rendered "to wail" in Mark 5:38 , see CLANGING. (2) For kopto, rendered "to wail" in Revelation 1:7 , AV (RV, "shall mourn") and Revelation 18:9 , RV, "wail" (AV, "lament"), see BEWAIL. (3) For pentheo, rendered "to wail" in Revelation 18:15,19 , AV, see MOURN. (4) For klauthmos, rendered "wailing" in Matthew 13:42,50 , AV, see WEEP. (5) In Matthew 11:17; Luke 7:32 , AV, threneo, "to wail" (RV), is rendered "to mourn." See BEWAIL , Note (1), MOURN.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Wail, Wailing'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​w/wail-wailing.html. 1940.