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title: הִי — lamentation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הִי (1958), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: lamentation. BDB 1906: lamentation, wailing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הִי

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«הִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lamentation** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1958 · **BDB:** הִי

### Glosses

wailing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lamentation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1958/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

lamentation, wailing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1958/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (?) n.\[m.\] lamentation, wailing, only Ez 2:10 וְכָתוּב אֵלֶיהָ קִינִים וָהֶגֶה וָהִי and written in it were lamentations and mourning and wailing (𝔊 οὐαί, woe! Ew§ 101 c comp. אִי, cf. III. אִי p. 33 supr.; according to Thes Sta§ 125 b al. הִי = נְהִי, נ being dropped; Ol§ 77 g, 144 c would emend נְהִי \& so Co; v. נְהִי sub נהה. Text very dubious).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1958/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 2:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.2.10/)

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וַיִּפְרֹ֤שׂ אוֹתָהּ֙ לְפָנַ֔י וְהִ֥יא כְתוּבָ֖ה פָּנִ֣ים וְאָח֑וֹר וְכָת֣וּב אֵלֶ֔יהָ קִנִ֥ים וָהֶ֖גֶה וָהִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.spread.out it before me and it \[was\].written face and back and.\[was\] written to it lamentations and moaning and wailing

*JPS 1917:* and He spread it before me, and it was written within and without; and there was written therein lamentations, and moaning, and woe.

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