Lexical Definition

‎קִינָה‎ qîynâh (kee-naw') dirge ^H:N-F
from ‎קוּן‎

lamentation.

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

1) lamentation, dirge, elegy

See Greek: θρηνέω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎קִינָה‎ noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ‎׳‎‎ק‎ 2Sam 1:17 +; plural ‎קִינִים‎ Ezek 2:10 (but read ‎קינה‎ Co — not Berthol Toy Krae), ‎קִינוֺת‎ 2Chr 35:25 suffix ‎קִינוֺתֵיהֶם‎ v2Chr 35:25 — elegy, dirge 2Sam 1:17; Ezek 19:14 (twice in verse); Ezek 32:16, plural 2Chr 35:25 singular || ‎אֵבֶל‎ Amos 8:10, || ‎הֶגֶה וָהִי‎ Ezek 2:10, ‎׳‎‎נשׂא ק‎ Jer 7:29, with ‎עַל‎ for, Amos 5:1; Jer 9:9*; Ezek 26:17; Ezek 27:2; Ezek 28:12; Ezek 32:2 with ‎אֶל‎ Ezek 19:1; Ezek 27:32 ‎׳‎‎למּד ק‎ Jer 9:19* (|| ‎נֶהִי‎); plural as collection of written dirges 2Chr 35:25. — Bu^{ZAW ii (1882), 1 ff.} compare iii (1883), 299 ff. thinks Kina rhythm always 3 + 2 tone-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; Ezek 19:2ff. Ezek 26:17b ff. are pentameter, 2Sam 1:19ff. 2Sam 3:33f. tetrameter, Ezek 27:3ff. Ezek 28:12ff. Ezek 32:2ff. hexameter; see Br^{Gen.Intr. 379 ff}.

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