Strong's Lexicon

H4553

H4553 — מִספֵּד

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmicepdnoun mascOccurrences: 14TWOT: 1530a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4553
Word:	מִספֵּד
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H5594
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	14
Transliteration:	micepd
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mis-pade'
Meaning:	1. a lamentation
KJV Renderings:	lamentation, one mourneth, mourning, wailing.

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BDB5669

מִסְפֵּד noun masculine^{Gen 50:10} wailing; — absolute ׳ מ Amos 5:16 + 11 t.; construct מִסְפַּד Mic 1:11 + 2 t.; suffix מִסְפְּדִי Ps 30:12 — wailing:

1. for dead, Gen 50:10 ( J ; as accusative of cognate meaning with verb), Zech 12:10 (with עַלֿ; compare Zech 12:11 v Zech 12:11 below).

2. for calamity experienced Amos 5:16 (twice in verse) (|| אֵבֶל), Amos 5:17; Mic 1:8 (כַּתַּנִּים ׳ מ, || אֵבֶל), Mic 1:11; Jer 48:38; Ezek 27:31, anticipated Jer 6:26; Esth 4:3.

3. in contrition Isa 22:12 (+ בְּכִי), Joel 2:12 (+ צוֺם, בְּכִי ), compare Zech 12:11 (twice in verse).

4. in general, Ps 30:12 (opposed to מָחוֺל, compare Eccl 3:4).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מספד (mis-pédh’)

Genesis 50:10

KJV: 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 made a mourning for his father seven days.

EHCC: a great and very sore lamentation +

Esther 4:3

KJV: And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.many…: Heb. sackcloth and ashes were laid under many

EHCC: fasting, and weeping, and wailing ;

Psalms 30:11

KJV: Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

EHCC: (12).turned for me my mourning into

Isaiah 22:12

KJV: And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

EHCC: call to weeping. and to mourning,

Jeremiah 6:26

KJV: O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

EHCC: most bitter lamentation :

Joel 2:12

KJV: Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

EHCC: with fasting, and with weeping, and with

Amos 5:16

KJV: Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

EHCC: Watling (shall be) in all streets ;

Micah 1:8

KJV: 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.owls: Heb. daughters of the owl

EHCC: wailing like the dragons, and mourning

Zechariah 12:11

KJV: In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

EHCC: shall there se a great mourning in Jeru.