Bereave
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Ecclesiastes 4:8
- Last Reference: Hosea 9:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
BERE'AVE, verb transitive preterit tense bereaved, bereft:participle passive bereaved, bereft.
1. To deprive; to strip; to make destitute; with of before the thing taken away.
Me have ye bereaved of my children. Genesis 42:36.
It is sometimes used without of, and is particularly applied to express the loss of friends by death.
2. To take away from.
BERE'AVED, participle passive Deprived; stripped and left destitute.
From God
Exodus 12:29; Hosea 9:12
Mourning in, forbidden to Aaron, on account of his son's wickedness
Leviticus 10:6
Mourning in, forbidden to Ezekiel, for his wife
Ezekiel 24:16-18
Instances of:
Abraham, of Sarah
Genesis 23:2
Jacob, of Joseph
Genesis 37:34-35
Joseph, of his father
Genesis 50:1; Genesis 50:4
The Egyptians, of their firstborn
Exodus 12:29-33
Naomi, of her husband
Ruth 1:3; Ruth 1:5; Ruth 1:20-21
David, of his child by Bath-Sheba
2 Samuel 12:15-23
Absalom
2 Samuel 18:33; 2 Samuel 19:4
Resignation in
2 Samuel 12:22-23; Job 1:18-21; Ecclesiastes 7:2-4; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Afflictions, Consolation in; Afflictions, Resignation in; Resignation
BERE'AVEMENT, noun Deprivation, particularly by the loss of a friend by death.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Ecclesiastes 4:8
- Last Reference: Hosea 9:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: