Word Summary
thrēnos: a lamentation
Original Word: θρῆνοςTransliteration: thrēnos
Phonetic Spelling: (thray'-nos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a lamentation
Meaning: a lamentation
Strong's Concordance
lamentation.
From the base of throeo; wailing -- lamentation.
see GREEK throeo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2355: θρῆνοςθρῆνος,
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.)