King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7015
Transliteration: qinah
Phonetic Spelling: (kee-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: an elegy, dirge
Meaning: an elegy, dirge
Word Summary
qinah: an elegy, dirge
Original Word: קִינָהTransliteration: qinah
Phonetic Spelling: (kee-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: an elegy, dirge
Meaning: an elegy, dirge
Strong's Concordance
lamentation From quwn; a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments) -- lamentation.
see HEBREW quwn
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7015. qinah
II. קִינָה noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ׳ק 2 Samuel 1:17 +; plural קִינִים Ezekiel 2:10 (but read קינה Co — not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֺת2 Chronicles 35:25; suffix קִינוֺתֵיהֶם 35:25; — elegy, dirge 2 Samuel 1:17; Ezekiel 19:14 (twice in verse); 32:16, plural 2 Chronicles 35:25; singular "" אֵבֶל Amos 8:10, "" וָהִי הֶגֶה Ezekiel 2:10, ק ׳נשׂא Jeremiah 7:29, with עַל for, Amos 5:1; Jeremiah 9:9; Ezekiel 26:17; 27:2; 28:12; 32:2; with אֶל 19:1; 27:32; ק ׳למּד Jeremiah 9:19 ("" נֶהִי); plural as collection of written dirges 2 Chronicles 35:25. — BuZAW ii (1882), 1 ff. compare iii (1883), 299 ff. thinks Kina rhythm always 3 2tone-beats, but book Lamentations (Hebrew קִינוֺת) is in all parts pentameter, 3 2 varying sometimes with 2+ 3, yet always 5 in line, with caesura; of other קִינוֺת, Amos 5:2; Ezekiel 19:2ff. 26:17b ff. are pentameter, 2 Samuel 1:19ff. 3:33f. tetrameter, Ezekiel 27:3ff. 28:12ff. 32:2ff. hexameter; see BrGen.Intr. 379 ff.