STRONGS NUMBER G2355


Word Summary
thrēnos: a lamentation
Original Word: θρῆνος
Transliteration: thrēnos
Phonetic Spelling: (thray'-nos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a lamentation
Meaning: a lamentation
Strong's Concordance
lamentation.

From the base of throeo; wailing -- lamentation.

see GREEK throeo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2355: θρῆνος

θρῆνος, θρήνου, (θρέομαι to cry aloud, to lament; cf. German Thräne ((?), rather drönen; Curtius, § 317)), a lamentation: Matthew 2:18 Rec. (Sept; for קִינָה, also נְהִי; O. T. Apocrypha; Homer, Pindar, Tragg., Xenophon, Ages. 10, 3; Plato, others.)