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# lamentation

«lamentation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Loud crying and sad words because of grief or loss** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lamentation, lamentations; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Loud crying and sad words because of grief or loss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#m1)

2) (Bible) Lamentations is a book of the Bible: sad poems about the fall of Jerusalem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Book of Lamentations (Eikhah) is read on Tisha B'Av, the day of mourning for the destroyed Temple. Ezekiel's lamentations were songs of mourning for kings and cities. In the primary lessons: A formal, old-fashioned word in stories, poems and the Bible: it tells the reader there is deep sorrow, often loud. In The Wind in the Willows Toad breaks into lamentations in his dungeon. Everyday words: crying, wailing.

### examples

- Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, (Prophets EZK.19.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x1)
- 'And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre, (Prophets EZK.27.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x2)
- Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. (Writings PSA.78.64, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x3)
- There was weeping and lamentation in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x4)
- Toad flung himself down in bitter lamentation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x5)
- The lamentations of the mourners filled the church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x6)
- The Book of Lamentations is in the Old Testament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x7)
- Her lamentations over the broken vase went on all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x8)
- The poem is a lamentation for a lost friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x9)
- At this story the parents redoubled their lamentations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/#x10)

### note

From the verb «lament» (to mourn) + -ation. Stress: la-men-TAY-shun. Often humorous today for too much complaining.

### In the corpora

- [And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.19/)
- [And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.295/)
- [And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they made lamentation for him: 'Alas, my brother!'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.515/)
- [Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.440/)
- ['And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.688/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lamentation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lamentation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.