Senses
1. lamentation, dirge, funeral song — A mournful poem or song of grief, typically composed for the dead or for a devastating event. All seven sense clusters represent the same noun in varying grammatical forms (singular, plural, with prepositions, with article, with suffixes). The multilingual evidence is remarkably uniform: English 'lamentation/dirge/laments,' Spanish 'lamentación/lamento/lamentos,' Hindi 'विलाप/शोकगीत' (wailing/dirge), Arabic 'مَرْثَاةً/مَرْثِيَةً/مَراثٍ' (elegy/elegies), Korean '애가/애곡' (lament song/mourning cry), and Swahili 'maombolezo/kilio' (lamentation/weeping). No semantic distinction exists between these clusters; they are purely morphological variants of one meaning. 18×
AR["إِلَى-مَرْثَاةٍ","الْمَرَاثِي","بِهٰذِهِ-الْمَرْثِيَةِ","رِثَاءً","فِي-مَرَاثِيهِمْ","لِـ-مَرْثِيَةٍ","مَراثٍ","مَرْثاةً","مَرْثَاةً","مَرْثَاةٌ","مَرْثِيَةً","مَرْثِيَةٌ"]·ben["-বিলাপের","এই-বিলাপ","তাদের-বিলাপে","বিলাপ","বিলাপগীতি","বিলাপগীতির-জন্য।","বিলাপে","শোকগাথা"]·DE["Klagegesang","[לקינה]","[קינה]","der-lamentation"]·EN["a-dirge","a-lamentation","for-lamentation","in-their-laments","into-lamentation","lamentation","lamentations","the-Laments","the-lamentation"]·FR["[בקינותיהם]","[הקינות]","lamentation","le-lamentation"]·heb["ב-קינותיהם-ם","ה-קינה","ה-קינות","ל-קינה","קינה","קינות"]·HI["उनके-विलापों-में","में-विलाप","विलाप","विलाप-के-लिए","विलापगीत","विलापों-की","शोकगीत"]·ID["Ratapan","dalam-ratapan-ratapan-mereka","nyanyian-duka","ratapan","ratapan,","ratapan-ratapan","ratapan."]·IT["[בקינותיהם]","[הקינות]","canne","il-lamentation","lamento"]·jav["Israel","Kidung-ratapan","dados-kidung-ratap","dados-ratapan","ing-kidung-pangumbèng-ipun","kidung-pangumbèng","kidung-ratap","kidung-ratapan","kidung-ratapan.","ratapan","tangisan"]·KO["그-애가","그-애가들","애가라","애가로","애가를","애가이다","애곡들","애곡을","에-그들의-애가들","으로-애가"]·PT["Lamentação","a-lamentação","as-Lamentações","como-lamentação","em-lamentação","em-suas-lamentações","endecha","lamentação","lamentações"]·RU["в-плач","в-плачах-своих","для-плача","плач","плачах","плачи","сетование","сетованию"]·ES["Lamentación","Lamento","en-lamento","en-sus-lamentaciones","endecha","la-lamentación","lamentación","lamento","lamentos","las-lamentaciones","para-lamento"]·SW["Maombolezo","bּkiynwoteyhem","hakiּynwot","kilio","kuwa-maombolezo","maombolezo"]·TR["ağıt","ağıt-olarak","ağıta","ağıtlar","ağıtların","ağıtlarında"]·urd["اپنے-نوحوں-میں","مرثیہ","مرثیہ-کے-طور-پر","نوحہ","نوحہ-گیتوں","نوحے","نوحے-میں"]
2 Sam 1:17, 2 Chr 35:25, 2 Chr 35:25, Jer 7:29, Jer 9:10, Jer 9:20, Ezek 2:10, Ezek 19:1, Ezek 19:14, Ezek 19:14, Ezek 26:17, Ezek 27:2 (+6 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. קִינָה n.f. elegy, dirge;—abs. ק׳ 2 S 1:17 +; pl. קִינִים Ez 2:10 (but read קינה Co—not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֹת 2 Ch 35:25; sf. קִינוֹתֵיהֶם v 25;—elegy, dirge 2 S 1:17; Ez 19:14(×2); 32:16, pl. 2 Ch 35:25; sg. ‖ אֵבֶל Am 8:10, ‖ הֶגֶה וָהִי Ez 2:10, נשׂא ק׳ Je 7:29, c. עַל for, Am 5:1; Je 9:9; Ez 26:17; 27:2; 28:12; 32:2; c. אֶל Ez 19:1; 27:32; למּד ק׳ Je 9:19 (‖ נֶהִי); pl. as…