The vocal expression of sorrow, particularly ritual mourning for the dead. Matthew uses it in quoting Jeremiah's prophecy about Rachel weeping for her children: 'lamentation and weeping and great mourning' (Matthew 2:18)—the triple description emphasizing the intensity of grief over Herod's massacre. Paul uses it differently in 2 Corinthians 7:7, reporting Titus's news of the Corinthians' 'mourning' over Paul—likely grief over past wrongs or longing for reconciliation. The term suggests audible, demonstrative grief.