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title: נִי — wailing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִי (5204), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: wailing. BDB 1906: wailing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִי

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«נִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wailing** — 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:** 5204 · **BDB:** נִי

### Glosses

wailing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wailing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5204/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

wailing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5204/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] si vera l., wailing (AV RV) ( = נְהִי);—וְנָֽשְׂאוּ אֵלַיִךְ בְּנִיהֶם קִינָה Ez 27:32, but improb.; 𝔊 𝔖 בְּנֵיהֶם, v. MV; so Co, who, however, del. as gloss, cf. Buhl Berthol.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5204/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.32/)

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וְנָשְׂא֨וּ אֵלַ֤יִךְ בְּנִיהֶם֙ קִינָ֔ה וְקוֹנְנ֖וּ עָלָ֑יִךְ מִ֣י כְצ֔וֹר כְּדֻמָ֖ה בְּת֥וֹךְ הַיָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.take.up concerning you in wailing their a.lamentation and they.will.make.a.lament on you who? \[is\].like Tyre like one.silenced in the.middle of the.sea

*JPS 1917:* And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee: who was there like Tyre, fortified in the midst of the sea?

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