Senses
1. lamentation, wailing — A mournful cry or lamentation, expressing grief or sorrow, often in the context of prophetic judgment or funeral dirges. Both clusters convey the same meaning with S116577 being a single occurrence variant. Multilingual evidence converges: eng 'lamentation/wailing', spa 'lamento/endecha' (both mean dirge/lament), hin 'विलाप/रोना' (lamentation/weeping), arb 'نَحِيبًا/الرَّثاءِ' (wailing/elegy), kor '통곡/탄식' (wailing/sighing), swa 'maombolezo/kuomboleza'. 7×
AR["الرَّثاءِ","تَرْدِيدُ","نَحِيبًا","نَحِيبٍ","نَوْحٌ","وَنَحِيبًا"]·ben["ও-বিলাপ","বিলাপ","বিলাপে-","বিলাপের","শোকগাথা"]·DE["Wehklage","[נהי]","und-Wehklage"]·EN["a-lament","a-wailing","and-lamentation","lamentation","wailing"]·FR["et-lamentation","lamentation"]·heb["ו-נהי","נהי"]·HI["और-विलाप","रोना।","विलाप","विलाप-की"]·ID["dan-ratapan","meratap","ratapan"]·IT["[נהי]","e-lamento","lamento"]·jav["lan-sesambat","sesambat","tangis"]·KO["그리고-통곡을","애곡","탄식을","통곡을","통곡의","통곡이"]·PT["e-lamentação","lamentação","lamento"]·RU["и-рыдание","рыдание","рыданием","рыданию","рыдания","скорбь"]·ES["endecha","lamento","y-lamento"]·SW["kuomboleza","maombolezo","na-maombolezo","ya-maombolezo"]·TR["ağıt","ağıtın","feryat","inleme","inlemenin","ve-inleme"]·urd["آہ","اور-نوحہ","نوحہ","نوحے","نوحے-کی"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† נְהִי n.[m.] wailing, lamentation, mourning song;—נ׳ abs. Am 5:16 + 5 times; וָנֶ֑הִי Je 9:9;—wailing, at י׳’s judgment Mi 2:4 as acc. cogn.; Je 9:9 (c. נָשָׂא עַל־, + בְּכִי, ‖ קִינָה), v 17 (c. id., ‖ דִּמְעָה), v 18 (קוֹל נ׳), 31:15 (‖ בְּכִי, תַּמְרוּרִים); mourning song יוֹדְעֵי נ׳ Am 5:16 of professional mourners, skilled in mourning song; cf. Je 9:19, where taught (‖ קִינָה), also הִי Ez 2:10 (‖ אֵבֶל, מִסְפֵּד) q.v. (Ol Co read נהי, cf. Berthol).