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# קין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6969

**spear** — used 8 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

spear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6969/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll.; cf. Arabic قَانَ fit together, fabricate (make artificially), forge (cf. WetzstSyriac Dreschtafel (1873) 297), whence قَيْنٌ worker in iron, Assyrian ḳinai (MeissnZA viii (1893), 82), 𝔗 קֵינָאָה, Syriac ܩܰܝܢܳܝܳܐ, Palm. קיניא (pl.) metal-worker, cf. BH תּוּבַל קַיִן; also Arabic قَيْنَةٌ slave-girl, and women-singer, lute-player (from skill); cf. Ethiopic ቅኔ song, singing, Syriac ܩܺܝܢܬܳܐ, hymn, elegy; Arabic vb. iv Dozy; NH קִינָה = BH; cf. also BuZAW ii (1882), 28).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he made a lament (3); they will take as a lament (2); people (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 3:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.33/#tree)

וַיְקֹנֵ֥ן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶל־אַבְנֵ֖ר וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַכְּמ֥וֹת נָבָ֖ל יָמ֥וּת אַבְנֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.made.a.lament the king concerning Abner and he.said like \[the\] death? of.a.fool will.he.die Abner

*JPS 1917:* And the king lamented for Abner, and said: Should Abner die as a churl dieth?

[2 Samuel 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.17/#tree)

וַיְקֹנֵ֣ן דָּוִ֔ד אֶת־הַקִּינָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את עַל־שָׁא֖וּל וְעַל־יְהוֹנָתָ֥ן בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.made.a.lament David (et) the lamentation (the) this on Saul and on Jonathan son his

*JPS 1917:* And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6969.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6969/): 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).