Word

נִי

nîy · H5204 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. lamentation

    Action by which humans sing a mournful song, to give expression to their grief

    Examples

    Ezekiel 27:32 Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a song of mourning for you And sing a song of mourning over you: ‘Who is like Tyre, Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Near synonyms 1 word
נְהִי nᵉhîy · H5092 · lamentation
Both words denote wailing and lamentation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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נִי, "wailing," its sole occurrence at Jeremiah 22:18 describing the mourning cry that will not be raised for King Jehoiakim, tying the word to a vocalized lament.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5204. niy [נִי] noun [masculine] si vera lectio, wailing (AV RV) (= נְהִי); — קִינָה…
H5204. niy
[נִי] noun [masculine] si vera lectio, wailing (AV RV) (= נְהִי); — קִינָה בְּנִיהֶם אֵלַיִךְ וְנָָֽשְׂאוּ Eze 27:32, but improbable; בְּנֵיהֶם ᵑ6 ᵐ5, see MV; so Co, who, however, strike out as gloss, compare Buhl Berthol.
הִי
noun [masculine] si vera lectio, wailing (= (נְ)הִי) q. v.) Eze 2:10 וָהִ֑י, where probably read וּנְהִי Ol Co, compare Berthol (|| והגה קינים).

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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