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Genesis 23:2

וַ תָּמָת שָׂרָה בְּ קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע הִוא חֶבְרֹון בְּ אֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן וַ יָּבֹא אַבְרָהָם לִ סְפֹּד לְ שָׂרָה וְ לִ בְכֹּתָהּ
And ContentiousWoman is dying in Meeting-City of the Four,778 himself is League,779 in the earth of Humbled, and Father-of-Tumult is coming in to lament780 to ContentiousWoman, and to bewail her.
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Strong’s #5594, saphad. A primitive root; properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail