κλαυθμός
weeping
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2805 appears — 9 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 7 verses
- Matthew 2:18 κλαυθμὸς n nom sg masc "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; She wouldn't be comforted, Because they are no more."
- Matthew 8:12 κλαυθμὸς n nom sg masc but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
- Matthew 13:42 κλαυθμὸς n nom sg masc and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 13:50 κλαυθμὸς n nom sg masc and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
- Matthew 22:13 κλαυθμὸς n nom sg masc Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
- Matthew 24:51 κλαυθμὸς n nom sg masc and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
- Matthew 25:30 κλαυθμὸς n nom sg masc Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κλαυθμος (klauthmós) is a Greek noun most often rendered “weeping.” It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 78% of its uses. With 9 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 2:18. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2805 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 89%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 22%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Weeping 6×, Wailing 2×
- American Standard Version: Weeping 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Weeping 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Weeping 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2805 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2805 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2805 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2805 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- weeping, lamentation
Word origin
Derived from κλαιω (klaíō) (G2799) — to mourn.
From G2799 ; lamentation : - wailing weeping X wept.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κλαυθμος appears 30 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 30 verses in 15 books.
- 30
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 30
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 45:2 κλαυθμός
- Deuteronomy 34:8 κλαυθμός
- Judges 21:2 κλαυθμός
- 2 Samuel 13:36 κλαυθμός
- 2 Kings 20:3 κλαυθμός
- Ezra 3:13 κλαυθμός
- Job 16:16 κλαυθμός
- Psalms 6:9 κλαυθμός
- Isaiah 15:3 κλαυθμός
- Jeremiah 3:21 κλαυθμός
- Lamentations 5:13 κλαυθμός
- Daniel 6:21 κλαυθμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2805) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 45:2 κλαυθμός He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
- Genesis 46:29 κλαυθμός Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
- Deuteronomy 34:8 κλαυθμός The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
- Judges 21:2 κλαυθμός The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
- 2 Samuel 13:36 κλαυθμός It happened, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
- 2 Kings 20:3 κλαυθμός Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
- Ezra 3:13 κλαυθμός so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
- Job 16:16 κλαυθμός My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
- Job 30:31 κλαυθμός Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
- Psalms 6:9 κλαυθμός Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
- Psalms 29:6 κλαυθμός He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
- Psalms 101:10 κλαυθμός
- Isaiah 15:3 κλαυθμός In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
- Isaiah 16:9 κλαυθμός Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
- Isaiah 22:12 κλαυθμός In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Isaiah 30:19 κλαυθμός For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.
- Isaiah 38:3 κλαυθμός and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
- Isaiah 65:19 κλαυθμός I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
- Jeremiah 3:21 κλαυθμός A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
- Jeremiah 22:10 κλαυθμός Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
- Jeremiah 31:5 κλαυθμός Again shall you plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit of it].
- Jeremiah 31:32 κλαυθμός not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 38:9 κλαυθμός My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
- Jeremiah 38:15 κλαυθμός Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.
- Jeremiah 38:16 κλαυθμός So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.
- Lamentations 5:13 κλαυθμός The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
- Daniel 6:21 κλαυθμός Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.
- Joel 2:12 κλαυθμός "Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
- Micah 7:4 κλαυθμός The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, Even your visitation, has come; Now is the time of their confusion.
- Malachi 2:13 κλαυθμός This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2805) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
