- Original: ספד - Transliteration: Caphad - Phonetic: saw-fad' - Definition: 1. to wail, lament, mourn a. (Qal) 1. to wail, lament 2. wailers (participle) b. (Niphal) to be lamented, be bewailed - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1530 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication to wail: - lament mourn (-er) wail. Total KJV Occurrences: 30 • lament, 9 Isaiah 32:12; Jeremiah 4:8; Jeremiah 16:5; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 22:18(2); Jeremiah 34:5; Jeremiah 49:3; Joel 1:13 • lamented, 4 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 28:3; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 25:33 • mourn, 9 Genesis 23:2; 2 Samuel 3:31; 1 Kings 13:29; 1 Kings 14:13; Ecclesiastes 3:4; Ezekiel 24:16; Ezekiel 24:23; Zechariah 12:10; Zechariah 12:12 • mourned, 6 Genesis 50:10; 2 Samuel 1:12; 2 Samuel 11:26; 1 Kings 13:30; 1 Kings 14:18; Zechariah 7:5 • mourners, 1 Ecclesiastes 12:5 • wail, 1 Micah 1:8