נָהָה
na.hah
“to wail”
Definition
to groan, i.e. bewail; hence (through the idea of crying aloud), to assemble (as if on proclamation)
a primitive root;
- to wail, lament 1a) (Qal) to wail, lament 1b) (Niphal) to go mourning after
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
נָהָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.
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In that day they will take up a proverb against youand taunt you with this bitter lamentation:‘We are utterly ruined!He has changed the portion of my people.How He has removed it from me!He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
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