Unlike its companion term (H4797) used for drunken revelry, this form appears in Jeremiah 16:5 in a solemn, funereal context. God commands Jeremiah not to enter "the house of mourning" (bet marzeach), where communities gathered to mourn the dead. BDB notes the Talmudic connection to mourning-feasts, and Phoenician parallels suggest these were formal, perhaps even cultic, gatherings around death. The prohibition reflects the totality of coming judgment—normal social rituals must cease. Jeremiah cannot even perform the basic duty of communal mourning, signaling the complete breakdown of society under divine wrath.