The meaning of “נְהִי”
Understanding nᵉhîy reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
lamentation, wailing. - an elegy 1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song 1a) wailing 1b) mourning song
נְהִי
lamentation, wailing. - an elegy 1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song 1a) wailing 1b) mourning song
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah 9:19 | “For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.” Word: נְהִי (nᵉhîy) | |
| Amos 5:16 | “Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.” Word: נְהִי (nᵉhîy) | |
| Micah 2:4 | “In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.” Word: נְהִי (nᵉhîy) |
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