קִינָה qinah

Hebrew word for “dirge” · Strong’s H7015 · used 18 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

lamentation, dirge, elegy

How it is translated

Glosses given for qinah in context, with how often each is used:

• lamentation 15
• lamentations 3

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 9 (2), Ezekiel 19 (2), Ezekiel 27 (2), Ezekiel 32 (2), 2 Samuel 1 (1), 2 Chronicles 35 (1), Jeremiah 7 (1), Ezekiel 2 (1), Ezekiel 26 (1), Ezekiel 28 (1)

Forms

• קינה 12
• לקינה 2
• הקינה 1
• בקינותיהם 1
• הקינות 1
• קנים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qinah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• קִינֵן qun “to chant” 4
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 9
• צֹר tsor “Tyre” 3
• נְהִי nehi “wailing” 2
• יָם yam “sea” 3
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 4
• אָדָם adam “man” 3
• כָּתַב katav “to write” 2
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 3
• יְהֹוִה yehovih “YHWH/God” 2
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 2
• בַּת bat “daughter” 2

Key verses

The verses using qinah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Chronicles 35:25 — And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance…
• Jeremiah 7:29 — Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his…
• Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can…
• Ezekiel 2:10 — And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
• Ezekiel 19:1 — Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
• Ezekiel 19:14 — And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation,…
• Ezekiel 26:17 — And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast…
• Ezekiel 27:2 — Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
• Ezekiel 28:12 — Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in…
• Ezekiel 32:2 — Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas:…
• Amos 5:1 — Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
• Amos 8:10 — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.