BDB7427

II. קִינָה noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ׳ ק 2Sam 1:17 +; plural קִינִים Ezek 2:10 (but read קינה Co — not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֺת 2Chr 35:25 suffix קִינוֺתֵיהֶם 2Chr 35:25 — elegy, dirge 2Sam 1:17; Ezek 19:14 (twice in verse); Ezek 32:16, plural 2Chr 35:25 singular || אֵבֶל Amos 8:10, || הֶגֶה וָהִי Ezek 2:10, ׳ נשׂא ק Jer 7:29, with עַל for, Amos 5:1; Jer 9:9; Ezek 26:17; Ezek 27:2; Ezek 28:12; Ezek 32:2 with אֶל Ezek 19:1; Ezek 27:32 ׳ למּד ק Jer 9:19 (|| נֶהִי); plural as collection of written dirges 2Chr 35:25. — Bu^{ZAW ii (1882), 1 ff.} compare iii (1883), 299 ff. thinks Kina rhythm always 3 + 2 tone-beats, but book Lamentations (Hebrew קִינוֺת) is in all parts pentameter, 3 + 2 varying sometimes with 2 + 3, yet always 5 in line, with caesura; of other קִינוֺת, Amos 5:2; Ezek 19:2ff. Ezek 26:17b ff. are pentameter, 2Sam 1:19ff. 2Sam 3:33f. tetrameter, Ezek 27:3 ff. Ezek 28:12ff. Ezek 32:2ff. hexameter; see Br^{Gen.Intr. 379 ff}.