Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5092
נְהִי
ne.hi · “wailing”
Used 7 times across 3 books
Definition
1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song
1a) wailing
1b) mourning song
1a) wailing
1b) mourning song
Where it appears
Jeremiah5
Amos1
Micah1
In the text
Jeremiah 9:9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Jeremiah 9:17Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: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 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.
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