Definition

a lamentation

Etymology

from H5594 (סָפַד);

Word family

• סָפַד çâphad

How the KJV renders it

• lamentation
• one mourneth
• mourning
• wailing

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.