Hebrew verb · H5091
נָהָה
nahahnaw-haw'
to wail
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâhâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5091is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5091
to groan, i.e. bewail; hence (through the idea of crying aloud), to assemble (as if on proclamation)
The King James renders it: lament, wail.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nahah is rendered "to wail". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 7:2And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.
1 Samuel 7:2וַיִּנָּה֛וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he will wail1
- and they mourned1
- wail1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָהָר | nahar | River | Uses119 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיִּנָּה֛וּ1
- וְנָהָ֨ה1
- נְהֵ֛ה1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqv2ms
1 Samuel
one use
And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.
- וַיִּנָּה֛וּvaiyinahuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they mourned
Ezekiel
one use
“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
- נְהֵ֛הnehehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wail
Micah
one use
In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
- וְנָהָ֨הvenahahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wail
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.