noun · masculine
klauthmos
Strong’sG2805
weeping, lamentation
stem klauthm-9 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κλαυθμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< κλαίω), [in LXX chiefly for בְּכִי;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2805 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidklowth-mos'
lamentation
Fromfrom G2799;
King Jameswailing, weeping, X wept.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
= {κλαυθμονή}, Refs 8th c.BC+; κλαυθμοὶ παίδων NT+4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | klauthmos9×κλαυθμὸς | klauthmois |
| object accusative | klauthmon | klauthmoin |
| direct address vocative | klauthmor | klauthmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | klauthmou | klauthmoiu |
| to, for dative | klauthmo | klauthmoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
klauthmo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
klauthmos“weeping”subjectnominative singular9×
Matthew 2:18Fōnas en Rama akouita, klauthmos kai odurmos pollos; Rachēl klaiarōntas teim …“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for …
Matthew 8:12… skotem tem exōterem; ekei eti tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:42… kaminosan teu pureu; ekei eti tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50… kaminosan teu pureu; ekei eti tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:13… skotem tem exōterem; ekei eti tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Matthew 24:51… toiu hupokritoiu tithati; ekei eti tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.[’’]
Matthew 25:30… skotem tem exōterem; ekei eti tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Luke 13:28ekei eti tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu, hotan …There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you …
Acts 20:37“weeping”hikanos de klauthmos geneta pantoiu, kai epipiptarantois epi ton …They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.