The word in Scripture

Tears in the Bible

The word tears appears 36 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Tears are the language of sorrow that God treasures. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What tears means in the Bible

Tears are the language of sorrow that God treasures.

Where the word tears appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word tears appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.”Psalms 6:6

“Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.”Psalms 80:5

“Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.”Isaiah 16:9

“He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.”Isaiah 25:8

“And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”Mark 9:24

“And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.”Luke 7:38

“Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;”Hebrews 5:7

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”Revelation 21:4