Wailing
נְהִיStrong’s H5092nehi (ne-hi)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nehi is the Hebrew word usually translated “wailing”, “mourning song” and “lamentation”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.”
Meaning
- Wailing, lamentation, mourning songwailing · mourning song
How it's translated
- wailing 2
- a mourning song 2
- and wailing 1
- lamentation 1
- a wailing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 5
- Amos 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 9:18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
- Jeremiah 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
- Jeremiah 9:20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
- Jeremiah 31:15Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
- Amos 5:16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
- 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
נְהִי nehi · wailing
1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song 1a) wailing 1b) mourning song
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wailing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAILING, participle present
tense Lamenting with audible cries.
All definitions and other forms of “wailing”
WAILING, noun
Loud cries of sorrow; deep lamentation.
- “There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth” Matthew 13:42
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.