Bible Encyclopedia: The Dead: Mourning For, often by Hired Mourners

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In Death and after Death
... Graves in fields or in the open were often marked by ... while the other and longer period
of mourning that followed ... So long as the dead body was actually in the ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 10 in death and.htm

"Lazarus, Come Forth"
... This question had often been asked by the Pharisees, who ... that by raising Lazarus
from the dead He might ... Among the mourning friends were relatives of the family ...
/.../white/the desire of ages/chapter 58 lazarus come forth.htm

The Death and the Raising of Lazarus - the Question of Miracles ...
... otherwise - and in similar circumstances it often does seem ... at Nain and again gave
life to the dead. ... now in Judæa, the hired mourners - both mourning-men (for ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxi the death and.htm

The Touch of Faith and the Touch of Christ
... music and the shrill shrieks of Eastern mourning, which met ... that the little girl
was not really dead, but only ... as men count death, and, as has often been the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the touch of faith and.htm

The Healing of the Woman - Christ's Personal Appearance - the ...
... over death, with which Jesus had entered the house of mourning. ... so He would tell
it them, as so often in like ... it to us, that the damsel was not dead, but only ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxvi the healing of.htm

The Raising of the Young Man of Nain - the Meeting of Life and ...
... Nain ere the evening, when so often funerals took ... great multitude' that followed
the dead, with lamentations, wild chaunts of mourning women, [2668 ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xx the raising of.htm

Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews.
... once or twice a year, many often, the solitaries ... xxiii, xxxii, sung at, [2874]386;
hired mourners if admitted ... prayed yet raised Himself from the dead, [2966]404 ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homilies on the epistle to.htm

Notes
... The earliest inscriptions are often roughly scratched on plaster ... handfuls of earth
upon a body discovered dead. ... not wear the black robes of mourning while they ...
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Abraham, his Trial in Egypt; his Humility
... Church-discipline, to be preceded by mourning and prayer ... 656]388; the acclamations
of mock the dead, [657]ib ... evil men, [765]400; threatens often without punishing ...
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The Close of the Theban Empire --(Continued)
... The prescribed gold ring was often replaced by one ... in the morning from the house
of mourning, and proceeded ... and is applied naturally to the dead person, who ...
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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Jeremiah 9:17,18
Thus said the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Amos 5:16
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, said thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Subtopics

Dead

Dead (People): Anointing

Dead (People): Burnings of Incense Made For

Dead (People): Dorcas

Dead (People): Eutychus

Dead (People): Jairus' Daughter

Dead (People): Lazarus

Dead (People): Prepared for Burial by Washing

Dead (People): Raised to Life, (See

Dead (People): The Shunammite Woman's Son

Dead (People): The Son of the Widow of Zarephath