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Wailing

נִיStrong’s H5204

ni

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Ni is the Hebrew word usually translated “wailing their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?”
Ezekiel 27:32 KJV
Meaning
  1. Wailing
How it's translated
  • in wailing their 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    נִי ni · wailing

    wailing

    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.

        1. “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.