מִסְפֵּדmiçpêd

Meanings

Same root

• סָפַדçâphad · H5594properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 50:10 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.
• Esther 4:3 And as news of the king’s decree reached all the provinces, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and wailed, and many people lay in burlap and ashes.
• Psalms 30:11 You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,
• Isaiah 22:12 At that time the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, called you to weep and mourn. He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins and to wear clothes of burlap to show your remorse.
• Jeremiah 6:26 Oh, my people, dress yourselves in burlap and sit among the ashes. Mourn and weep bitterly, as for the loss of an only son. For suddenly the destroying armies will be upon you!
• Jeremiah 48:38 There is crying and sorrow in every Moabite home and on every street. For I have smashed Moab like an old, unwanted jar.