To chant
קִינֵןStrong’s H6969qun
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qun is the Hebrew word usually translated “lamented”, “chant” and “made a lament”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:”
Meaning
- To chant a dirge, chant, wail, lament(Polel) to lament
How it's translated
- and he lamented 2
- they will chant 2
- and he made a lament 1
- the wailing 1
- and they will lament 1
- and people will chant it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 3:33And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
- 2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
- Jeremiah 9:17Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
- Ezekiel 27:32And 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 32:16This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Hebrew dictionary
קִינֵן qun · to chant
1) to chant a dirge, chant, wail, lament 1a) (Polel) to lament
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHANT, verb transitive
- To sing; to utter a melodious voice; that is, to cant or throw the voice in modulations.
- To celebrate in song; as, to chant the praises of Jehovah.
- To sing, as in church-service; to repeat words in a kind of canting voice, with modulations.
All definitions and other forms of “chant”
CHANT, verb intransitive
- To sing; to make melody with the voice.“They chant to the sound of the viol” Amos 6:5
- To repeat words in the church-service with a kind of singing.
CHANT, noun
Song; melody; church-service.
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.