נְהִי
ne.hi
“wailing”
Definition
an elegy
from H5091 (נָהָה);
- wailing, lamentation, mourning song 1a) wailing 1b) mourning song
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
נְהִי appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:“There will be wailing in all the public squaresand cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.The farmer will be summoned to mourn,and the mourners to wail.
This is what the LORD says:“A voice is heard in Ramah,mourning and great weeping,Rachel weeping for her children,and refusing to be comforted,because they are no more.”
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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