The meaning of “קִינָה”
Understanding qîynâh reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
lamentation. - a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments) 1) lamentation, dirge, elegy
קִינָה
lamentation. - a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments) 1) lamentation, dirge, elegy
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Samuel 1:17 | “And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:” Word: קִינָה (qîynâh) | |
| 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 in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.” Word: קִינָה (qîynâh) | |
| 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 pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.” Word: קִינָה (qîynâh) | |
| Ezekiel 27:2 | “Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;” Word: קִינָה (qîynâh) | |
| 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 I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.” Word: קִינָה (qîynâh) |
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