קִינָה
qîynâh · kee-naw'
a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6969 (קוּן);
a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: lamentation.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the hand that works › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the hand that works of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קִינָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
18 occurrences · 18 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a lamentation8 · 44%
- with this lamentation1 · 6%
- in their lamentations1 · 6%
- in the lamentations1 · 6%
- lamentation1 · 6%
- therein lamentations1 · 6%
- this is a lamentation1 · 6%
- and shall be for a lamentation1 · 6%
- this is the lamentation1 · 6%
- against you, even a lamentation1 · 6%
- into lamentation1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.