Topic
Mourn
48 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 23:2Easton
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Genesis 35:8Easton
But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
- Genesis 37:29Easton
¶ And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
- Genesis 37:34Easton
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 50:3Easton
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
- Exodus 33:4Easton
¶ And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
- Leviticus 10:6Easton
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the…
- Leviticus 13:45Easton
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
- Leviticus 23:27Easton
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Numbers 20:29Easton
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 21:12Easton
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
- Deuteronomy 21:13Easton
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
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- Deuteronomy 34:8 Easton
- Judges 20:26 Easton
- Ruth 1:9 Easton
- 1 Samuel 6:19 Easton
- 1 Samuel 7:6 Easton
- 1 Samuel 25:1 Easton
- 1 Samuel 31:13 Easton
- 2 Samuel 1:12 Easton
- 2 Samuel 3:31 Easton
- 2 Samuel 3:31–35 Easton
- 2 Samuel 3:35 Easton
- 2 Samuel 12:16 Easton
- 2 Samuel 13:19 Easton
- 2 Samuel 13:31 Easton
- 2 Samuel 14:2 Easton
- 2 Samuel 19:24 Easton
- 2 Chronicles 35:25 Easton
- Job 1:20 Easton
- Job 2:12 Easton
- Psalms 35:13 Easton
- Jeremiah 6:26 Easton
- Jeremiah 9:17 Easton
- Jeremiah 16:6 Easton
- Jeremiah 16:7 Easton
- Jonah 3:5 Easton
- Micah 3:7 Easton
- Zechariah 12:10 Easton
- Zechariah 12:11 Easton
- Matthew 6:16 Easton
- Matthew 6:17 Easton
- Matthew 9:23 Easton
- Matthew 26:65 Easton
- Luke 7:38 Easton
- John 11:1–57 Easton
- Acts 8:2 Easton
- Acts 27:9 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 58 references
Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Gen. 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel for Aaron (Num. 20:29), for Moses (Deut. 34:8), and for Samuel (1 Sam. 25:1); David for Abner (2 Sam. 3:31, 35); Mary and Martha for Lazarus (John 11); devout men for Stephen (Acts 8:2), etc.
(2.) For calamities, Job (1:20, 21; 2:8); Israel (Ex. 33:4); the Ninevites (Jonah 3:5); Israel, when defeated by Benjamin (Judg. 20:26), etc.
(3.) Penitential mourning, by the Israelites on the day of atonement (Lev. 23:27; Acts 27:9); under Samuel’s ministry (1 Sam. 7:6); predicted in Zechariah (Zech. 12:10, 11); in many of the psalms (51, etc.).
Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Gen. 35:8, marg.; Luke 7:38, etc.); (2) by loud lamentation (Ruth 1:9; 1 Sam. 6:19; 2 Sam. 3:31); (3) by the disfigurement of the person, as rending the clothes (Gen. 37:29, 34; Matt. 26:65), wearing sackcloth (Gen. 37:34; Ps. 35:13), sprinkling dust or ashes on the person (2 Sam. 13:19; Jer. 6:26; Job 2:12), shaving the head and plucking out the hair of the head or beard (Lev. 10:6; Job 1:20), neglect of the person or the removal of ornaments (Ex. 33:4; Deut. 21:12, 13; 2 Sam. 14:2; 19:24; Matt. 6:16, 17), fasting (2 Sam. 1:12), covering the upper lip (Lev. 13:45; Micah 3:7), cutting the flesh (Jer. 16:6, 7), and sitting in silence (Judg. 20:26; 2 Sam. 12:16; 13:31; Job 1:20).
In the later times we find a class of mourners who could be hired to give by their loud lamentation the external tokens of sorrow (2 Chr. 35:25; Jer. 9:17; Matt. 9:23).
The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was seventy days (Gen. 50:3); for Aaron (Num. 20:29) and Moses (Deut. 34:8) thirty days; and for Saul only seven days (1 Sam. 31:13). In 2 Sam. 3:31-35, we have a description of the great mourning for the death of Abner.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.