וַֽ/יִּסְפְּדוּ֙
𐤅/𐤉𐤎𐤐𐤃𐤅
çâphad
and they mourned
To express grief audibly and visibly, particularly through lamentation rituals; to mourn the dead, to engage in public acts of mourning, including wailing, dirges, and formal expressions of communal bereavement. Commonly refers to the performance of mourning rites, especially in funerary settings and other occasions of collective loss.
2 Samuel 1:12 · Word #1
Lexicon H5594
| Lemma | סָפַד |
| Lemma (Paleo) | 𐤎𐤐𐤃 |
| Transliteration | çâphad |
| Strong's | H5594 |
| Definition | To express grief audibly and visibly, particularly through lamentation rituals; to mourn the dead, to engage in public acts of mourning, including wailing, dirges, and formal expressions of communal bereavement. Commonly refers to the performance of mourning rites, especially in funerary settings and other occasions of collective loss. |
Morphology HC/Vqw3mp
All morphology codes
| Part of Speech | V — Verb — An action or state |
| Binyan | q — Qal — Simple active |
| Conjugation | w — Sequential Imperfect — Imperfect with waw-consecutive, narrating past events |
| Person | 3 — 3rd person — Third person ("he/she/they") |
| Gender | m — Masculine — Masculine |
| Number | p — Plural — Plural |
Common Translation
| Phrase | and they mourned |
SIBI-P1 Translation H5594-13
and they publicly mourned
| Morphological Notes | Verb, Qal stem, sequential imperfect (wayyiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural. |
| Rendering Rationale | The Qal stem expresses the simple active act of mourning, and the sequential imperfect (3rd masculine plural) indicates a completed past narrative action by multiple male subjects. "Publicly mourned" preserves the root’s emphasis on audible, communal lamentation rites. |
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