H5092 - נְהִי (nᵉhîy)

H5092 נְהִי (nᵉhîy) neh-hee'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

wailing

Strong's Definition

an elegy

Derivation: from H5091 (נָהָה);

KJV Usage: lamentation, wailing.

TWOT Reference: 1311a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song

1a) wailing

1b) mourning song

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2355 G2870

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song 1a) wailing 1b) mourning song

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

נְהִי nehý̂y BDB Definition: 1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song 1a) wailing 1b) mourning song Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5091 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1311a Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (7)

9:10 9:18 9:19 9:20 31:15

5:16

2:4

Jeremiah 9:10

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

Jeremiah 9:18

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Jeremiah 9:19

For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.

Jeremiah 9:20

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

Jeremiah 31:15

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.

Amos 5:16

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners... to wail.

Micah 2:4

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and 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.