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Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains is unavailable, but you can change that!

Louw-Nida Greek Lexicon is a modern Greek lexicon using the concept of "semantic domains." This lexicon differs from other lexicons in that it does not arrange words alphabetically and it does not give one listing of a word with all of that word's meanings after it. Instead, it breaks words down by their various shades of meaning. It then groups all of those entries together and organizes them by...

wail’ Jn 16:20; καὶ γυναικῶν αἳ ἐκόπτοντο καὶ ἐθρήνουν αὐτόν ‘some women who were mourning and wailing for him’ Lk 23:27. For another interpretation of θρηνέω in Lk 23:27, see 52.2. Mourning and wailing for the dead are frequently expressed by a term very different from expressions employed in referring to events not involving death. ; πένθος, ους n: to experience sadness or grief as the result of depressing circumstances or the condition of persons—‘to be sad, to grieve
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