Weeping

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( a.) Having slender, pendent branches; - said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

(2): ( a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.

(3): ( a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.

(4): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weep

(5): ( a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.

(6): ( n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Grief And Mourning

King James Dictionary

Weeping ppr. Lamenting shedding tears.

WEEPING, n. Lamentation.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

See Funeral .

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

WEEPING . See Mourning Customs.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

WEEPING. —See Tears.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( בְּכַי , Κλαίω ). The ancient Hebrews Wept and made their troubles to appear openly, in mourning and affliction; they were not of opinion that courage and greatness of soul consisted in seeming to be insensible in adversity, or in restraining their tears. It was even looked upon as a great disrespect for any one not to be bewailed at his funeral. Job says of the wicked man, "His widow shall not weep" ( Job 27:15). The Psalmist, speaking of the death of Hophni and Phinehas, says, " Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation" ( Psalms 78:64). God forbids Ezekiel to weep or to express any sorrow for the death of his wife, to show that the Jews should be reduced to so great calamities that they should not have the liberty even to mourn or bewail themselves ( Ezekiel 24:16). (See Mourning Tears).