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# הִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1958

**lamentation** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lamentation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1958/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הִי: lamentation, wailing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1958/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (?) n.\[m.\] lamentation, wailing, only Ez 2:10 וְכָתוּב אֵלֶיהָ קִינִים וָהֶגֶה וָהִי and written in it were lamentations and mourning and wailing (𝔊 οὐαί, woe! Ew§ 101 c comp. אִי, cf. III. אִי p. 33 supr.; according to Thes Sta§ 125 b al. הִי = נְהִי, נ being dropped; Ol§ 77 g, 144 c would emend נְהִי & so Co; v. נְהִי sub נהה. Text very dubious).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wailing (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 2:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.2.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.2.10/#tree)

וַיִּפְרֹ֤שׂ אוֹתָהּ֙ לְפָנַ֔י וְהִ֥יא כְתוּבָ֖ה פָּנִ֣ים וְאָח֑וֹר וְכָת֣וּב אֵלֶ֔יהָ קִנִ֥ים וָהֶ֖גֶה וָהִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.spread.out it before me and it \[was\].written face and back and.\[was\] written to it lamentations and moaning and wailing

*JPS 1917:* and He spread it before me, and it was written within and without; and there was written therein lamentations, and moaning, and woe.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1958.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1958/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).