Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5092
נְהִי
nehineh-hee'
wailing
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nᵉhîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5092is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5092
an elegy
The King James renders it: lamentation, wailing.
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
nehi is rendered "wailing". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 9:10I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
Jeremiah 9:10וָנֶ֗הִי
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
- a mourning song2
- wailing2
- a wailing1
- and wailing1
- of lamentation1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְהִיר | nehir | light | Uses3 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- וָנֶ֗הִי1
- נְהִ֛י1
- נְהִי֙1
- נְהִ֤י1
- נֶ֑הִי1
- נֶ֔הִי1
- נֶֽהִי׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Jeremiah
five uses
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
- וָנֶ֗הִיvanehiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and wailing
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
- נֶ֑הִיnehinoun · masculine singulartagged: wailing
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
- נְהִ֛יnehinoun · masculine singulartagged: wailing
Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
- נֶ֔הִיnehinoun · masculine singulartagged: a mourning song
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- נְהִי֙nehinoun · masculine singulartagged: a mourning song
Amos
one use
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
- נֶֽהִי׃nehinoun · masculine singulartagged: of lamentation
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.’”
- נְהִ֤יnehinoun · masculine singulartagged: a wailing
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.