kun · chant a dirge

What it means

kun (קוּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chant a dirge”.

Lament the dead in song.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To sing a lament for the dead; women who did so.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• will chant ×3
• chanted a dirge ×2
• chant a lament ×1
• chanted ×1
• mourning women ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4

• 2 Samuel 1:17

  David chanted this dirge over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

• 2 Samuel 3:33

  And the king chanted a dirge over Abner and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

• 2 Chronicles 35:25

  Jeremiah chanted a dirge for Josiah; and all the male singers and the female singers have spoken of Josiah in their dirges to this day, and they made them a statute for Israel; and they are written in the Dirges.

• Jeremiah 9:17

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come, and send for the wise women to come;

• Ezekiel 27:32

  And they will raise over you, in their wailing, a dirge, and chant a lament over you: “Who is like Tyre, like the silenced one in the midst of the sea?”

• Ezekiel 32:16

  This is a dirge, and they will chant it as a dirge; the daughters of the nations will chant it; over Egypt and over all her multitude they will chant it, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

And 2 more times.