Strong's Lexicon

H5204

H5204 — נִי

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewniynoun mascOccurrences: 1TWOT: 1311cc

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H5204
Word:נִי
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:a doubtful word, apparently from H5091
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:niy
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:nee
Meaning:1. lamentation
KJV Renderings:wailing.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB5014

[נִי] noun [masculine] si vera lectio, wailing ( AV RV ) (= נְהִי); — וְנָָֽשְׂאוּ אֵלַיִךְ בְּנִיהֶם קִינָה Ezek 27:32, but improbable; ᵐ5 ᵑ6 בְּנֵיהֶם, see MV; so Co , who, however, strike out as gloss, compare Buhl Berthol.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אוניות (Gh-neey-yohth’)

2 Chronicles 8:18

KJV: And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
EHCC: Huram sent him, by the hand of his ser-
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