Strong H5092נְהִי
wailing
- Transliteration
- nehîy
- Pronunciation
- neh-hee'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H5091; an elegy: - {lamentation} wailing.
Detailed definition
1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song
1a) wailing
1b) mourning song
1a) wailing
1b) mourning song
In the Bible
Strong H5092 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- lamentation3
- wail3
- wailing1
First verses
- Jeremiah 9:10For 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.
- Jeremiah 9:18And 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.
- Jeremiah 9:19For 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.
- Jeremiah 9:20Yet 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.
- Jeremiah 31:15Thus 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.
- Amos 5:16Therefore 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.
- Micah 2:4In 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.