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title: נָהָה — wail · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָהָה (lemma:נָהָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: wail. BDB 1906: vb. wail, lament. With 1 verse 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:נָהָה · **BDB:** נָהָה

### Glosses

they.mourned (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. wail, lament [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b8_5d4/#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, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 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/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 7:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.7.2/)

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וַיְהִ֗י מִיּ֞וֹם שֶׁ֤בֶת הָֽאָרוֹן֙ בְּקִרְיַ֣ת יְעָרִ֔ים קִרְיַ֣ת יְעָרִ֔ים וַיִּרְבּוּ֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים וַיִּֽהְי֖וּ עֶשְׂרִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיִּנָּה֛וּ כָּל־בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אַחֲרֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was from the.day dwelt the ark at Kiriath Jearim and they.increased the days and they.were twenty year\[s\] and they.mourned all the.house of.Israel after Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel yearned after the LORD.

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