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קין

Strong’s: H6969

Associated OET lemmas: קין

Authors: Graham S. Ogden

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Related lemmas: קִינָה

Sense 1: to lament, to mourn, to bewail in a song

Semantic domains: Sing (002004001009006)

Core domains: Music and Dance (111); Communication (041); Mourning (109); Joy and Grief (093)

Definition: = to sing a song in which one expresses one's grief at the loss of a loved one or the destruction of a town or nation

Forms: vbpiel

Valencies: v אֶל-X; v עַל-X

Show passage in OET: SA2 3:33

OET-RV SA2 3:33

33 The king sang this song for Avner:
⇔ “Avner shouldn’t have died as if he was just some drunken fool.

OET-LV SA2 3:33

33 And_ the_king _he _made _a _lament concerning ʼAⱱnēr and_he _said like_the_death _of a _fool ʼAⱱnēr will _he _die.

Show passage in OET: CH2 35:25

OET-RV CH2 35:25

25 The prophet Yirmiyah (Jeremiah) wrote a funeral song for him, which the male and female singers still use at funerals to this day. That became a custom in Yisrael (Israel) —the words of that song are written in a scroll of funeral songs.

OET-LV CH2 35:25

25 And_ Yirmə^yāh/(Jeremiah) _he _made _a _lament on Yoʼshiy^yāh and_they _said all _of the _male_singers and_the _female_singers in_lamentations _of_their on Yoʼshiy^yāh until the_day and_they_made _them into_a _decree on Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) and_THERE_they are_written on the_lamentations.

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All 3 recorded passages for this sense

SA2: OET SA2 3:33

CH2: OET CH2 35:25

EZE: OET EZE 27:32

Sense 2: to sing a dirge, to lament, to mourn, to bewail in a song

Semantic domains: Sing (002004001009006)

Core domains: Communication (041); Music and Dance (111); Joy and Grief (093)

Definition: = to sing a song in which one expresses one's grief at the loss of a loved one or the destruction of a town or nation

Forms: vbpiel

Valencies: v X

Collocations: קנן קִינָה

Show passage in OET: SA2 1:17

OET-RV SA2 1:17

17 Then David sang this funeral song for Sha’ul (Saul) and his son Yonatan (Jonathan)

OET-LV SA2 1:17

17 And_ Dāvid _he _made _a _lament DOM the_lamentation (the)_this on Shāʼūl/(Saul) and_on Yōnātān his/its_son.

Show passage in OET: EZE 32:16

OET-RV EZE 32:16

16 There’ll be a funeral song—the daughters of the nations will sing mournful songs about it.
⇔ They’ll sing sadly about Mitsrayim—over all its multitudes they’ll sing dirges.
⇔ That’s the master Yahweh’s declaration.’ ”

OET-LV EZE 32:16

16 Is_a _lamentation it and_people_will _take _it _as _a _lament the _daughters _of the_nations they _will _take _as _a _lament it on Miʦrayim and_on all _of multitude _of_its they _will _take _as _a _lament it the _utterance _of my_master YHWH.

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Sense 3: wailing woman

Semantic domains: Professions (001001002003009)

Core domains: Work (200); Communication (041); Music and Dance (111); Mourning (109)

Definition: = female person who is skillful at wailing and has made it her profession

Forms: vbpiel

Synonyms: חָכָם

Show passage in OET: JER 9:16

OET-RV JER 9:17

17 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
⇔ Consider that and summon funeral wailers to come—
⇔ ≈ get the most skillful women to come.

OET-LV JER 9:16

16  Thus YHWH soldiers/messengers he _says consider and_summon (to)_the_who]_wail so_that _they _may _come and_near/to the _skillful_women send so_that _they _may _come.

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