נָהָה
nâhâh · H5091 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to lament
The action by which humans sing a mournful song to give expression to their grief
Examples1 Samuel 7:2 From the day that the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim, the time was long, for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel mourned after the LORD.
Ezekiel 32:18 “Son of man, lament for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the mighty nations, to the netherworld, with those who go down to the pit;
Micah 2:4 “On that day they will take up against you a song of mocking And utter a song of mourning and say, ‘We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the share of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.’
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְהִיlamentation 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אַחַרafter, behind+ יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ הָמוֹןmultitude, tumult, abundance 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- נָהָה denotes lamenting or wailing, used of mourning cries raised over the dead or over disaster (Micah 2:4, Ezekiel 32:18), tying the word to a vocalized, song-like expression of grief.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5091. nahah נָהָה verb wail, lament (probably onomatopoetic, compare StaGeschichte. i.…
נָהָה verb wail, lament (probably onomatopoetic, compare StaGeschichte. i. 388; Arabic (in Lexicons); Ethiopic : is recreari, respirare, etc. Di632); —
Qal Perfect וְנָהָה Mic 2:4 lament followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb; Imperative נְהֵה Eze 32:18, followed byעַל concerning, for.
Niph`al Imperfect וַיִּנָּהוּ 1Sa 7:2 followed byאַהֲרִי went mourning after (so most, compare Th Dr, who argue against Thes were gathered), < read וַיִּפְנוּ ויפנ(הׅ, turned after = submitted to (as Eze 29:16) ᵐ5 (perhaps), We Kit Bu HPS.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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