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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7015

קִינָה

qinahkee-naw'

dirge

18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: qîynâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7015is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7015

a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)

The King James renders it: lamentation.

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

qinah is rendered "dirge". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Ten 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 thirteen different ways.

The first use

Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

2 Samuel 1:17הַקִּינָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's eighteen uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 34 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a lamentation11
  • in lamentations their1
  • into a lamentation1
  • into lamentation1
  • lamentation1
  • lamentations1
  • the lamentation1
  • the lamentations1

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.

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 18, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 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

  • קִינָ֔ה3
  • קִינָה֙2
  • קִינָ֖ה2
  • קִינָֽה׃2
  • בְּקִינ֨וֹתֵיהֶ֤ם1
  • הַקִּינָ֖ה1
  • הַקִּינֽוֹת׃1
  • לְקִינָ֔ה1
  • לְקִינָֽה׃ פ1
  • קִינָ֑ה1
  • קִ֥ינָה1
  • קִינָ֥ה1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular12HNcfsa
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
  • noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HTd/Ncfpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

    2 Samuel 1:17

    • הַקִּינָ֖הhakinahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the lamentation

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • 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.

    2 Chronicles 35:25

    • בְּקִינ֨וֹתֵיהֶ֤םbekinoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: in lamentations their
    • הַקִּינֽוֹת׃hakinotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the lamentations

Jeremiah

three uses
  • Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

    Jeremiah 7:29

    • קִינָ֑הkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • 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 9:10

    • קִינָ֔הkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: lamentation
  • 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.

    Jeremiah 9:20

    • קִינָֽה׃kinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation

Ezekiel

ten uses
  • which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

    Ezekiel 2:10

    • קִנִ֥יםkinimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lamentations
  • “As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

    Ezekiel 19:1

    • קִינָ֔הkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”

    Ezekiel 19:14

    • קִ֥ינָהkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
    • לְקִינָֽה׃ פlekinahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a lamentation
  • Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!

    Ezekiel 26:17

    • קִינָה֙kinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • “Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

    Ezekiel 27:2

    • קִינָֽה׃kinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • 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?

    Ezekiel 27:32

    • קִינָ֔הkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

    Ezekiel 28:12

    • קִינָ֖הkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

    Ezekiel 32:2

    • קִינָה֙kinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • 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.”

    Ezekiel 32:16

    • קִינָ֥הkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation

Amos

two uses
  • Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

    Amos 5:1

    • קִינָ֖הkinahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lamentation
  • I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

    Amos 8:10

    • לְקִינָ֔הlekinahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into lamentation

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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