Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
wailing
Usage: 1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song 1a) wailing 1b) mourning song
Strong's Number
H5092
Language
Hebrew
Linked Usages
7
Books
3
Strong's H5092 Quick Answer
Strong's H5092 נְהִי (nhiy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nhiy (neh-hee') n-m. 1. an elegy [from H5091] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include lamentation and wailing. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
- Meaning
- nhiy (neh-hee') n-m. 1. an elegy [from H5091]
- Usage
- 7 linked usages
- Books
- 3 indexed books
- Corpus
- Old Testament
- Usage Words
- lamentation and wailing
Meaning and Definition
nhiy (neh-hee') n-m. 1. an elegy [from H5091] KJV: lamentation, wailing. Root(s): H5091
Across Lexicons
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5092. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
How Strong's H5092 Is Translated
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nhiy, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
lamentation
Jeremiah 9:10
5×
wailing
Jeremiah 9:18
2×
How Strong's H5092 Usage Compares
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
- The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 7 linked usages.
- The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.
Strong's H5092 by Corpus
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
Strong's H5092 in the Old Testament
7 indexed usages in Old Testament.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Usage Excerpts
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5092.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
All Indexed Usage Links
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5092, grouped by book.
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Strong's H5092 FAQ
What does nehi (נְהִי) mean?
Nehi (Strong's H5092) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lamentation". nhiy (neh-hee') n-m. 1. an elegy [from H5091]
How many times is nehi (נְהִי) used in the Bible?
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's H5092 across 3 books.
Where can I study nehi (נְהִי) in context?
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5092 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
What English words translate nehi (נְהִי)?
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lamentation and wailing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.