nehi · lament

What it means

nehi (נְהִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lament”.

A song of mourning for someone who has died or for a disaster.

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 mourning song.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wailing ×5
• bitter lament ×1
• lamentation ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Jeremiah×5
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• 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 9:18

  and let them hurry and raise over us a wailing, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

• Jeremiah 9:19

  For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are devastated! We are greatly ashamed, for we have left the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.’”

• 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.

• Jeremiah 31:15

  Thus says YHWH: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, bitter weeping: Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

• Amos 5:16

  Therefore thus says YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, Adonai: In all the squares there will be lamenting, and in all the streets they will say, “Alas! Alas!” And they will call the farmer to mourning, and to lamenting those skilled in wailing.

• 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.’