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Definition of Lamentations

Lamentation
Lamentation Lam`en*ta"tion, n. [F. lamentation, L. lamentatio.] 1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. --Matt. ii. 18. 2. pl. (Script.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.

Meaning of Lamentations from wikipedia

- endings. In contrast, the book of Lamentations was written before the return/rebuilding and thus contains only lamentations and pleas to God with no response...
- Look up lamentations in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Book of Lamentations is part of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. Lamentations may also refer...
- State Park Lamentation of Christ, a common subject in Christian art Book of Lamentations, a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible The Lamentations of a Sinner...
- The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet have been set by various composers. Thomas Tallis set the first lesson, and second lesson, of Tenebrae on Maundy...
- of the Armenian religious tradition. He is best known for his Book of Lamentations, a significant piece of mystical literature which serves as a confessional...
- Epitaphios with influence from Western Lamentations, by Theophanes of Crete. 1st half of 16th century. An individual Lamentation from the Rohan Hours. The grieving...
- The Midrash on Lamentations (Hebrew: אֵיכָה רבה, romanized: Ēkhā Rabbāh) is a midrashic commentary to the Book of Lamentations. It is one of the oldest...
- The Lamentation of a Sinner (contemporary spelling: The Lamentacion of a Synner) is a three-part sequence of reflections published by the English queen...
- regularly in English literature during the 19th century. The name Mur des Lamentations was used in French and Klagemauer in German. This description stemmed...
- The Five Scrolls are the Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and the Book of Esther. These five relatively short biblical...