Original Word: θρῆνος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: thrénos
Phonetic Spelling: (thray'-nos)
Definition: a lamentation
Usage: wailing, lamentation, dirge.

Cognate: 2355 thrḗnos – to cry aloud (wail). See 2354 (thrēneō).

Word Origin
from threomai (cry aloud, shriek)
Definition
a lamentation.

STRONGS NT 2355: θρῆνος

θρῆνος, θρήνου, ὁ (θρέομαι to cry aloud, to lament; cf. German Thräne ((?), rather drönen; Curtius, § 317)), a lamentation: Matthew 2:18 Rec. (Sept; for קִינָה, also נְהִי; O. T. Apocrypha; Homer, Pindar, Tragg., Xenophon, Ages. 10, 3; Plato, others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

lamentation.

From the base of throeo; wailing -- lamentation.

see GREEK throeo

Forms and Transliterations

θρήνον θρήνος θρήνός θρήνου θρήνων

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