Original Language Studio
1 Kings 14:13
“And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5594 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- lament, mourn(-er), wail.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- סָֽפְדוּ — verb Qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 32 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 23:2Genesis 50:101 Samuel 25:11 Samuel 28:32 Samuel 1:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סָפַד here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.