Denotes weeping or wailing — loud, audible crying driven by grief, anguish, or despair. In the Gospels, klauthmos appears most characteristically in Jesus' repeated phrase about 'outer darkness' where there will be 'weeping and gnashing of teeth' (Matt 8:12; 13:42, 50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30; Luke 13:28). This formulaic pairing makes klauthmos a word heavy with eschatological dread. It also appears in Matthew 2:18 quoting Jeremiah's oracle of Rachel weeping for her children — a passage where Spanish 'llanto' and German 'Weinen' both convey deep, inconsolable mourning.