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# נְהִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5092

**wailing** — used 7 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

wailing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5092/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְהִי: wailing, lamentation, mourning song [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5092/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wailing, lamentation, mourning song;—נ׳ abs. Am 5:16 + 5 times; וָנֶ֑הִי Je 9:9;—wailing, at י׳’s judgment Mi 2:4 as acc. cogn.; Je 9:9 (c. נָשָׂא עַל־, + בְּכִי, ‖ קִינָה), v 17 (c. id., ‖ דִּמְעָה), v 18 (קוֹל נ׳), 31:15 (‖ בְּכִי, תַּמְרוּרִים); mourning song יוֹדְעֵי נ׳ Am 5:16 of professional mourners, skilled in mourning song; cf. Je 9:19, where taught (‖ קִינָה), also הִי Ez 2:10 (‖ אֵבֶל, מִסְפֵּד) q.v. (Ol Co read נהי, cf. Berthol).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a wailing (2); wailing (2); (of) mourning song\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.17/#tree)

וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָה וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָה עָלֵ֖ינוּ נֶ֑הִי וְתֵרַ֤דְנָה עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ דִּמְעָ֔ה וְעַפְעַפֵּ֖ינוּ יִזְּלוּ־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and let.them.hasten and let.them.take.up on us wailing so that.they.may.run.down eyes our tear\[s\] and eyelids our they.may.flow water

*JPS 1917:* And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

[Jeremiah 9:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.18/#tree)

כִּ֣י ק֥וֹל נְהִ֛י נִשְׁמַ֥ע מִצִּיּ֖וֹן אֵ֣יךְ שֻׁדָּ֑דְנוּ בֹּ֤שְׁנֽוּ מְאֹד֙ כִּֽי־עָזַ֣בְנוּ אָ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י הִשְׁלִ֖יכוּ מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֵֽינוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) a.sound of.wailing it.has.been.heard from Zion how! we.have.been.devastated we.have.been.put.to.shame exceedingly (dm) we.have.left \[the\].land (dm) people.have.cast.down dwellings our

*JPS 1917:* For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion: 'How are we undone! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5092.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5092/): 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).