| Lexical Summary pentheō: to mourn, lamentOriginal Word: πενθέω Transliteration: pentheō Phonetic Spelling: (pen-theh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to mourn, lament Meaning: to mourn, lament Strong's Concordancemourn, bewail. From penthos; to grieve (the feeling or the act) -- mourn, (be-)wail. see GREEK penthos Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 3996: πενθέω πενθέω, πένθω; future πενθήσω; 1 aorist ἐπένθησα (πένθος); from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for אָבַל; to mourn; a. intransitive: Matthew 5:4 ( b. transitive, to mourn for, lament, one: 2 Corinthians 12:21 (cf. Winers Grammar, 635f (590); Buttmann, § 131, 4. Synonym: see  θρηνέω, at the end.) | 



