II. קִינָה noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ׳ק [2Sam 1:17] +; plural קִינִים [Ezek 2:10] (but read קינה Co — not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֺת [2Chr 35:25] suffix קִינוֺתֵיהֶם v[2Chr 35:25] — elegy, dirge [2Sam 1:17]; [Ezek 19:14] (twice in verse); [Ezek 32:16], plural [2Chr 35:25] singular || אֵבֶל [Amos 8:10], || הֶגֶה וָהִי [Ezek 2:10], ׳נשׂא ק [Jer 7:29], with עַל for, [Amos 5:1]; [Jer 9:9]; [Ezek 26:17]; [Ezek 27:2]; [Ezek 28:12]; [Ezek 32:2] with אֶל [Ezek 19:1]; [Ezek 27:32] ׳למּד ק [Jer 9:19] (|| נֶהִי); plural as collection of written dirges [2Chr 35:25]. — BuZAW ii (1882), 1 ff. compare iii (1883), 299 ff. thinks Kina rhythm always 3 + 2 tone-beats, but book Lamentations (Hebrew קִינוֺת) is in all parts pentameter, 3 + 2 varying sometimes with 2 + 3, yet always 5 in line, with caesura; of other קִינוֺת, [Amos 5:2]; [Ezek 19:2]ff. [Ezek 26:17]b ff. are pentameter, [2Sam 1:19]ff. [2Sam 3:33]f. tetrameter, [Ezek 27:3]ff. [Ezek 28:12]ff. [Ezek 32:2]ff. hexameter; see BrGen.Intr. 379 ff.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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