Lamentation
אֲנִיָּהStrong’s H0592aniyyah (a-niy-yah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aniyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lamentation”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.”
Meaning
- Mourning, lamentation
How it's translated
- and lamentation 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲנִיָּה aniyyah · lamentation
mourning, lamentation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lamentation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAMENTA'TION, noun
[Latin lamentatio.]
- Expression of sorrow; cries of grief; the act of bewailing.“In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping” Matthew 2:18
- In the plural, a book of Scripture, containing the lamentations of Jeremiah.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.