To wail
נָהָהStrong’s H5091nahah (na-hah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nahah is the Hebrew word usually translated “mourned” and “wail”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.”
Meaning
- To wail, lament(Qal) to wail, lament · (Niphal) to go mourning after
How it's translated
- and they mourned 1
- wail 1
- and he will wail 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 32:18Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
- Micah 2:4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Hebrew dictionary
נָהָה nahah · to wail
1) to wail, lament 1a) (Qal) to wail, lament 1b) (Niphal) to go mourning after
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wail” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAIL, verb transitive
To lament; to moan; to bewail.
All definitions and other forms of “wail”
WAIL, verb intransitive
To weep; to express sorrow audibly.
- “Therefore I will wail and howl” Micah 1:8
WAIL, noun
Loud weeping; violent lamentation.
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.