קִינָה
qîynâh · H7015 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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lament, dirge
A sung dirge or lament at the death of a loved one; death of a friend or family member; expression of loss at one's death
Examples2 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.
Jeremiah 7:29 ‘Cut off your hair and throw it away, And take up a song of mourning on the bare heights; For the LORD has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.’
Ezekiel 2:10 When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were songs of mourning, sighing, and woe.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֹאתthis 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּתַבto write down, to write, to inscribe 1
What is done to itIt is the object
8 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 7
- קוּןto lament 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for 3
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- בin/on/with 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 a lamentation or dirge, directly illustrated by David's song of mourning over Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel 1:17), Jeremiah's chanted lament for Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:25), and the voice of wailing heard from Zion (Jeremiah 9:19).
- Names of Locations003001010
- This sense is shared with the identically spelled place name Kinah (קִינָה (Qîynâh, H7016)); it is not independently attested in this word's own sampled citations, which all concern the act of lamenting.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7015. qinah II. קִינָה noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ׳ק 2Sa 1:17 +; plural…
II. קִינָה noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ׳ק 2Sa 1:17 +; plural קִינִים Eze 2:10 (but read קינה Co — not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֺת2Ch 35:25; suffix קִינוֺתֵיהֶם 2Ch 35:25; — elegy, dirge 2Sa 1:17; Eze 19:14 (twice in verse); Eze 32:16, plural 2Ch 35:25; singular || אֵבֶל Amo 8:10, || וָהִי הֶגֶה Eze 2:10, ק ׳נשׂא Jer 7:29, with עַל for, Amo 5:1; Jer 9:9; Eze 26:17; Eze 27:2; Eze 28:12; Eze 32:2; with אֶל Eze 19:1; Eze 27:32; ק ׳למּד Jer 9:19 (|| נֶהִי); plural as collection of written dirges 2Ch 35:25. — BuZAW ii (1882), 1 ff. compare iii (1883), 299 ff. thinks Kina rhythm always 3 2tone-beats, but book Lamentations (Hebrew קִינוֺת) is in all parts pentameter, 3 2 varying sometimes with 2+ 3, yet always 5 in line, with caesura; of other קִינוֺת, Amo 5:2; Eze 19:2ff. Eze 26:17b ff. are pentameter, 2Sa 1:19ff. 2Sa 3:33f. tetrameter, Eze 27:3ff. Eze 28:12ff. Eze 32:2ff. hexameter; see BrGen.Intr. 379 ff.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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