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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Bereave

The Bible

Bible Usage:

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:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bereave

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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bereaved

BERE'AVED, participle passive Deprived; stripped and left destitute.


Naves Topical Index
Bereavement

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


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bereavement

BERE'AVEMENT, noun Deprivation, particularly by the loss of a friend by death.