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# נָהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5091

**wail** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5091/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָהָה: vb. wail, lament [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5091/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wail, lament (prob. onomatop., cf. StaGesch. i. 388; Aramaic ܢܗܳܐ, (in Lexx); Ethiopic ንህየ is recreari, respirare, etc. Di632);— Pf. וְנָהָה Mi 2:4 lament sq. acc. cogn.; Imv. נְהֵה Ez 32:18, sq. עַל, concerning, for. Impf. וַיִּנָּהוּ 1 S 7:2 sq. אַחֲרֵי went mourning after (so most, cf. Th Dr, who argue against Thes were gathered), ויפנ(ה), וַיִּפְנוּ turned after = submitted to (as Ez 29:16) 𝔊 (perhaps), We Kit Bu HPS.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 32:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.18/#tree)

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם נְהֵ֛ה עַל־הֲמ֥וֹן מִצְרַ֖יִם וְהוֹרִדֵ֑הוּ א֠וֹתָהּ וּבְנ֨וֹת גּוֹיִ֧ם אַדִּרִ֛ם אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ תַּחְתִּיּ֖וֹת אֶת־י֥וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* O.son of.humankind wail on the.multitude of.Egypt and bring it.down it and.\[the\] daughters of.nations mighty to \[the\].earth of.\[the\].lowest.parts with \[those.who\].go.down of.\[the\].pit

*JPS 1917:* 'Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, with the daughters of the mighty nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

[Micah 2:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.4/#tree)

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יִשָּׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם מָשָׁ֗ל וְנָהָ֨ה נְהִ֤י נִֽהְיָה֙ אָמַר֙ שָׁד֣וֹד נְשַׁדֻּ֔נוּ חֵ֥לֶק עַמִּ֖י יָמִ֑יר אֵ֚יךְ יָמִ֣ישׁ לִ֔י לְשׁוֹבֵ֥ב שָׂדֵ֖ינוּ יְחַלֵּֽק׃

*Word for word:* on the day (the) that someone.will.lift.up on you a.saying and he.will.wail a.wailing it.is.finished he.will.say utterly.(devastate) we.are.devastated the.portion my.people my he.changes how! he.removes.\[it\] for me to an.apostate fields our he.apportions

*JPS 1917:* In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me! Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5091.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5091/): 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).