θρῆνος, ὁ,
(θρέομαι)
1. dirge, lament, Il. 24.721, Sapph. 136, Pi. I. 8(7).64, Hdt. 2.79, 85, etc.; θ. οὑμός for me, A. Pr. 390; εἰπεῖν.. θ. θέλω ἐμὸν τὸν αὐτῆς Id. Ag. 1322.
2. complaint, sad strain, h.Pan. 18; Τοργόνων οὔλιον θ. Pi. P. 12.8; θρῆνοι καὶ ὀδυρμοί Pl. R. 398d, etc.: pl., lamentations, θρήνων ᾠδάς S. El. 88 (lyr.), etc.; title of poems by Pindar, Stob. 4.39.6, etc. (Distd. fr. ἐπικήδειον by Trypho ap. Ammon. Diff. p.54 V. (cf. Ptol.Asc. p.404H.), ἐπικήδειον τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ κήδει, θ. δὲ ἐν ᾡδήποτε χρόνῳ.)
G2355 — θρῆνος
θρήνου, ὁ (θρέομαι to cry aloud, to lament; cf. German Thräne ((?), rather drönen; Curtius, § 317)), a lamentation: [Mat 2:18] Rec. (Sept; for קִינָה, also נְהִי; O. T. Apocrypha; Homer, Pindar, Tragg., Xenophon, Ages. 10, 3; Plato, others.)