נָהָה
naha · lament
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5091 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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naha (נָהָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lament”.
Wail with grief.
How to say it
na·ha
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
- To weep with moans over a loss.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bewail ×1
- lament ×1
- lamented ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 7:2
And it happened, from the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath-jearim, that the days grew many and came to be twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after YHWH.
- Ezekiel 32:18
“Son of man, bewail the multitude of Egypt, and bring it down, her and the daughters of noble nations, to the land of the depths, with those who go down to the pit.
- Micah 2:4
On that day one will take up against you a poem, and lament with a bitter lament and say, ‘We are utterly ruined; the portion of my people he changes; how he removes it from me! To the faithless he divides our fields.’