kina · lament, dirge

What it means

kina (קִינָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lament, dirge”.

Dirge: a poem sung over someone's death or over a disaster. The Hebrew name of the book of Lamentations comes from this word.

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. A song of mourning for the dead or a disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dirge ×7
• lament ×6
• dirges ×2
• funeral song ×2
• were laments ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×10
• Amos×2

• 2 Samuel 1:17

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

• 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 7:29

  Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise on the bare heights a lament, for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• Jeremiah 9:10

  For the mountains I will take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lament, for they are burned, with no man passing through, and the sound of cattle is not heard; from the birds of the heavens to the beasts, they have fled, they are gone.

• Jeremiah 9:20

  Now hear, women, the word of YHWH, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters a wailing, and each woman her companion a lament.

• Ezekiel 2:10

  And he spread it out before me, and it was written on the front and on the back, and written on it were laments, moaning, and woe.

• Ezekiel 19:1

  And you, take up a lament for the chiefs of Israel,

• Ezekiel 19:14

  And fire has gone out from the rod of her shoots; it has consumed her fruit, and there is in her no strong rod, a scepter to rule.” This is a lament, and it has become a lament.

• Ezekiel 26:17

  And they will raise over you a dirge and say to you, ‘How you have perished, inhabited from the seas, the city that was praised, which was strong on the sea, she and her inhabitants, who put their terror on all her inhabitants!

• Ezekiel 27:2

  “And you, son of man, raise over Tyre a dirge,

• 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 28:12

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre, and say to him: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: You were the seal of proportion, full of wisdom and perfection of beauty.

• Ezekiel 32:2

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘A young lion of the nations you were compared to, and you are like the sea monster in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and muddied the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

• 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.’”

• Amos 5:1

  Hear this word that I take up over you as a funeral song, house of Israel:

• Amos 8:10

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into a funeral song; and I will bring up on all loins sackcloth, and on every head baldness; and I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

And 2 more times.