Word

קוּן

qûwn · H6969 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

to lament, to mourn, to bewail in a song

To sing a song in which one expresses one's grief at the loss of a loved one or the destruction of a town or nation

Examples
2 Samuel 3:33 And the king sang a song of mourning for Abner and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
2 Chronicles 35:25 Then Jeremiah chanted a song of mourning for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their songs of mourning to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.
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?
to sing a dirge, to lament, to mourn, to bewail in a song

To sing a song in which one expresses one's grief at the loss of a loved one or the destruction of a town or nation

Examples
2 Samuel 1:17 Then David sang this song of mourning over Saul and his son Jonathan,
Ezekiel 32:16 “This is a song of mourning, and they shall sing it. The daughters of the nations shall sing it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall sing it,” declares the Lord GOD.
wailing woman

Female person who is skillful at wailing and has made it her profession

Examples
Jeremiah 9:17 This is what the LORD of armies says: “Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the skillful women, that they may come!

How it’s used In 4 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

7 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: they 3
בַּתdaughter 1
דָּוִדDavid 1
יִרְמְיָהJeremiah 1
מֶלֶךְking 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

הָher 3
קִינָהlament 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵלto, toward+ אַבְנֵרAbner 1
עַלon, upon, over, against+ יֹאשִׁיָּהJosiah 1
עַלon, upon, over, against+ ךְyou 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 2

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 2 entries

Sing002004001009006: The word means to lament or sing a dirge, directly illustrated by David's song of mourning over Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel 1:17), his lament for Abner (2 Samuel 3:33), and Jeremiah's chanted lament for Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:25).
Professions001001003009: This sense, reflected in the word's own gloss "mourning woman" for a professional lamenter, is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which describe the act of composing or singing a lament rather than an occupational class.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

קוּןqûwn · H6969קִינָה qîynâh · H7015 · lament, dirge · 18×קַיִן qayin · H7013 · point of spear, spearhead · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6969. qonen [קוֺנֵן] verb denominative Po`l. chant a קִינָה; — Perfect3plural…

H6969. qonen
[קוֺנֵן] verb denominative Po`l. chant a קִינָה; — Perfect3plural consecutive וְקוֺנְנוּ Eze 27:32 (עַל person), suffix (cognate) וְקוֺנְוּהָ Eze 32:16; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיְקֹנֵן 2Sa 1:17 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb + עַל person), compare (עַל person only), 2Ch 35:25 and (אֶל person) 2Sa 3:33; 2Sa 3:3feminine plural תְּקוֺנֶנָּה with accusative of congnate meaning with verb, Eze 32:16, + עַל person Eze 32:16; Participle as substantive Jer 9:16 (professional) wailing women.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Professions1 occurrence Sing7 occurrences

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