Greek verb · G3996
πενθέω
pentheopen-theh'-o
to mourn
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: penthéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3996is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3996
to grieve (the feeling or the act)
The King James renders it: mourn, (be-)wail.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pentheo is rendered "to mourn". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4πενθοῦντες
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- mourning3
- do mourn1
- I may mourn over1
- mourned1
- they mourn1
- to mourn1
- you will mourn1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πενθοῦντες3
- ἐπενθήσατε1
- πενθεῖν1
- πενθήσατε1
- πενθήσετε1
- πενθήσω1
- πενθοῦσιν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3V-PAP-NPM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-AAI-2P
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural1V-AAM-2P
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singular1V-AAS-1S
- verb · future active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-FAI-2P
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-PAI-3P
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
Matthew
two uses
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- πενθοῦντεςpenthountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: mourning
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
- πενθεῖνpentheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to mourn
Luke
one use
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
- πενθήσετεpentheseteverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you will mourn
1 Corinthians
one use
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
- ἐπενθήσατεepenthesateverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: mourned
2 Corinthians
one use
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
- πενθήσωpenthesoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may mourn over
James
one use
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
- πενθήσατεpenthesateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do mourn
Revelation
three uses
And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—
- πενθοῦσινpenthousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they mourn
The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
- πενθοῦντεςpenthountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: mourning
Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”
- πενθοῦντεςpenthountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: mourning
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.