Lexicon qinah: an elegy, dirge Original Word: קִינִיםPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: qinah Phonetic Spelling: (kee-naw') Short Definition: lamentation NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as qayinDefinitionan elegy, dirge NASB Translationdirge (3), lament (1), lamentation (11), Lamentations (1), lamentations (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs II. קִינָה noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ׳ק 2 Samuel 1:17 +; plural קִינִים Ezekiel 2:10 (but read קינה Co — not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֺת2Chronicles 35:25; suffix קִינוֺתֵיהֶם 2 Chronicles 35:25; — elegy, dirge 2 Samuel 1:17; Ezekiel 19:14 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 32:16, plural 2Chronicles 35:25; singular "" אֵבֶל Amos 8:10, "" הֶגֶה וָהִי Ezekiel 2:10, ׳נשׂא ק Jeremiah 7:29, with עַל for, Amos 5:1; Jeremiah 9:9; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:2; Ezekiel 28:12; Ezekiel 32:2; with אֶל Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 27:32; ׳למּד ק Jeremiah 9:19 ("" נֶהִי); plural as collection of written dirges 2 Chronicles 35:25. — Bu ZAW 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, Amos 5:2; Ezekiel 19:2ff. Ezekiel 26:17b ff. are pentameter, 2 Samuel 1:19ff. 2 Samuel 3:33f. tetrameter, Ezekiel 27:3ff. Ezekiel 28:12ff. Ezekiel 32:2ff. hexameter; see Br Gen.Intr. 379 ff. Strong's lamentation From quwn; a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments) -- lamentation. see HEBREW quwn |
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