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# קִינָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7015

**elegy** — used 18 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

elegy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7015/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִינָה²: n.f. elegy, dirge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7015/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. elegy, dirge;—abs. ק׳ 2 S 1:17 +; pl. קִינִים Ez 2:10 (but read קינה Co—not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֹת 2 Ch 35:25; sf. קִינוֹתֵיהֶם v 25;—elegy, dirge 2 S 1:17; Ez 19:14(×2); 32:16, pl. 2 Ch 35:25; sg. ‖ אֵבֶל Am 8:10, ‖ הֶגֶה וָהִי Ez 2:10, נשׂא ק׳ Je 7:29, c. עַל for, Am 5:1; Je 9:9; Ez 26:17; 27:2; 28:12; 32:2; c. אֶל Ez 19:1; 27:32; למּד ק׳ Je 9:19 (‖ נֶהִי); pl. as collection of written dirges 2 Ch 35:25.—BuZAW ii (1882), 1 ff., cf. iii (1883), 299 ff. thinks Kina rhythm always 3 + 2 tone-beats, but look La (Heb. קִינוֹת) is in all parts pentam., 3 + 2 varying sometimes with 2 + 3, yet always 5 in line, with caesura; of other קִינוֹת, Am 5:2; Ez 19:2 ff.; 26:17b ff. are pent., 2 S 1:19 ff.; 3:33 f. tetr., Ez 27:3 ff.; 28:12 ff.; 32:2 ff. hex.; v. BrGen. Intr. 379 ff..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a lamentation (9); lamentation (4); lamentations (3).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 19:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.1/#tree)

וְאַתָּה֙ שָׂ֣א קִינָ֔ה אֶל־נְשִׂיאֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you take.up a.lamentation because.of the.princes of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

[Ezekiel 27:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.2/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֣ה בֶן־אָדָ֔ם שָׂ֥א עַל־צֹ֖ר קִינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you O.son of.humankind take.up on Tyre a.lamentation

*JPS 1917:* 'And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7015.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7015/): 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).