Quick Definition
to chant
Strong's Definition
to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: lament, mourning woman.
TWOT Reference: 2018
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קִינֵן (qun) — to chant. 1) to chant a dirge, chant, wail, lament 1a) (Polel) to lament
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · קִינָה
Sing | verb pi
to lament, to mourn, to bewail in a song = 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
Sing | verb pi
Collocation: קנן קִינָה
to sing a dirge, to lament, to mourn, to bewail in a song = 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
Professions | verb pi | ≈ חָכָם
wailing woman = female person who is skillful at wailing and has made it her profession
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[קִינֵן] vb. denom. Pō‛l. chant a קִינָה base