Hebrew verb · H6969
קוּן
qunkoon
to chant
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qûwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6969is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6969
to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral)
The King James renders it: lament, mourning woman.
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
qun is rendered "to chant". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 1:17Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
2 Samuel 1:17וַיְקֹנֵ֣ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eight uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he lamented2
- they will chant2
- and he made a lament1
- and people will chant it1
- and they will lament1
- to the wailing1
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.
All 8, 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
- תְּקוֹנֵ֣נָּה2
- וַיְקוֹנֵ֣ן1
- וַיְקֹנֵ֣ן1
- וַיְקֹנֵ֥ן1
- וְקוֹנְנ֖וּ1
- וְק֣וֹנְנ֔וּהָ1
- לַמְקוֹנְנ֖וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpw3ms3Hc/Vpw3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural2HVpi3fp
- Hc/Vpq3cp1Hc/Vpq3cp
- Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fs1Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fs
- preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine plural1HRd/Vprfpa
2 Samuel
two uses
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
- וַיְקֹנֵ֣ןvaykonenHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he lamented
And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?
- וַיְקֹנֵ֥ןvaykonenHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he lamented
2 Chronicles
one use
Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
- וַיְקוֹנֵ֣ןvaykonenHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made a lament
Jeremiah
one use
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
- לַמְקוֹנְנ֖וֹתlamkonotpreposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: to the wailing
Ezekiel
four uses
As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?
- וְקוֹנְנ֖וּvekonuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will lament
This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”
- וְק֣וֹנְנ֔וּהָvekonuhaHc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and people will chant it
- תְּקוֹנֵ֣נָּהtekonenahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will chant
- תְּקוֹנֵ֣נָּהtekonenahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will chant
The letters
Gematria 156· 806 mispar gadol
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.