Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
dirge
Usage: lamentation, dirge, elegy
Qinah means “lamentation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7015 קִינָה (qiynah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qiynah (kee-naw') n-f. 1. a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments) [from H6969] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include lamentation and lamentations. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
qiynah (kee-naw') n-f. 1. a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments) [from H6969] KJV: lamentation. Root(s): H6969
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dirge
Usage: lamentation, dirge, elegy
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qiynah, 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.
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16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7015.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
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.
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.
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Qinah (Strong's H7015) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lamentation". qiynah (kee-naw') n-f. 1. a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments) [from H6969]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H7015 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7015 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lamentation and lamentations. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.