קוּןqûwn

Po`lel: chant a קִינָה (Ezekiel 27:32; Ezekiel 32:16; 2 Samuel 1:17)

Pronunciation: koon · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6969

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 1:17 Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan,
  • 2 Samuel 3:33 Then the king sang this funeral song for Abner: “Should Abner have died as fools die?
  • 2 Chronicles 35:25 The prophet Jeremiah composed funeral songs for Josiah, and to this day choirs still sing these sad songs about his death. These songs of sorrow have become a tradition and are recorded in The Book of Laments.
  • Jeremiah 9:17 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “Consider all this, and call for the mourners. Send for the women who mourn at funerals.
  • Ezekiel 27:32 As they wail and mourn over you, they sing this sad funeral song: ‘Was there ever such a city as Tyre, now silent at the bottom of the sea?
  • Ezekiel 32:16 Yes, this is the funeral song they will sing for Egypt. Let all the nations mourn. Let them mourn for Egypt and its hordes. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).