נְהִי
ne.hi (H5092)
wailing
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "נְהִי" (ne.hi) is defined as "wailing." Its occurrences in the Bible are limited to 7 instances, suggesting a relatively specific or specialized context for this term. In terms of usage, the word "נְהִי" appears to relate to expressions of intense sorrow or lamentation, often to the point of being incomprehensible or incoherent. Its connection to wailing implies a loud and uncontrolled emotional outburst, typically associated with grief or mourning. Given its narrow usage and limited occurrences, the significance of the word "נְהִי" may lie in highlighting moments of extreme emotional intensity or despair within the biblical narrative, where the usual boundaries of language and self-control are exceeded by overwhelming grief or anguish.
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I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”