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title: נָהָה — wail · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָהָה (5091), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: wail. BDB 1906: vb. wail, lament. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָהָה

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«נָהָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wail** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5091 · **BDB:** נָהָה

### Glosses

he.will.wail (1); wail (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5091/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. wail, lament [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5091/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wail, lament (prob. onomatop., cf. StaGesch. i. 388; Aramaic ܢܗܳܐ, (in Lexx); Ethiopic ንህየ is recreari, respirare, etc. Di632);— Pf. וְנָהָה Mi 2:4 lament sq. acc. cogn.; Imv. נְהֵה Ez 32:18, sq. עַל, concerning, for. Impf. וַיִּנָּהוּ 1 S 7:2 sq. אַחֲרֵי went mourning after (so most, cf. Th Dr, who argue against Thes were gathered), ויפנ(ה), וַיִּפְנוּ turned after = submitted to (as Ez 29:16) 𝔊 (perhaps), We Kit Bu HPS.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָהָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5091/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 32:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.18/)

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בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם נְהֵ֛ה עַל־הֲמ֥וֹן מִצְרַ֖יִם וְהוֹרִדֵ֑הוּ א֠וֹתָהּ וּבְנ֨וֹת גּוֹיִ֧ם אַדִּרִ֛ם אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ תַּחְתִּיּ֖וֹת אֶת־י֥וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* O.son of.humankind wail on the.multitude of.Egypt and bring it.down it and.\[the\] daughters of.nations mighty to \[the\].earth of.\[the\].lowest.parts with \[those.who\].go.down of.\[the\].pit

*JPS 1917:* 'Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, with the daughters of the mighty nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

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[Micah 2:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.4/)

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בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יִשָּׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם מָשָׁ֗ל וְנָהָ֨ה נְהִ֤י נִֽהְיָה֙ אָמַר֙ שָׁד֣וֹד נְשַׁדֻּ֔נוּ חֵ֥לֶק עַמִּ֖י יָמִ֑יר אֵ֚יךְ יָמִ֣ישׁ לִ֔י לְשׁוֹבֵ֥ב שָׂדֵ֖ינוּ יְחַלֵּֽק׃

*Word for word:* on the day (the) that someone.will.lift.up on you a.saying and he.will.wail a.wailing it.is.finished he.will.say utterly.(devastate) we.are.devastated the.portion my.people my he.changes how! he.removes.\[it\] for me to an.apostate fields our he.apportions

*JPS 1917:* In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me! Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'

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