קִינָה

II. קִינָה noun feminine elegy, dirge; — absolute ׳ק 2 Sam 1,17 +; plural קִינִים Ezk 2,10 (but read קינה Co — not Berthol Toy Krae), קִינוֺת 2 Kron 35,25 suffix קִינוֺתֵיהֶם v2 Kron 35,25 — elegy, dirge 2 Sam 1,17; Ezk 19,14 (twice in verse); Ezk 32,16, plural 2 Kron 35,25 singular || אֵבֶל Amos 8,10, || הֶגֶה וָהִי Ezk 2,10, ׳נשׂא ק Jer 7,29, with עַל for, Amos 5,1; Jer 9,9; Ezk 26,17; Ezk 27,2; Ezk 28,12; Ezk 32,2 with אֶל Ezk 19,1; Ezk 27,32 ׳למּד ק Jer 9,19 (|| נֶהִי); plural as collection of written dirges 2 Kron 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; Ezk 19,2ff. Ezk 26,17b ff. are pentameter, 2 Sam 1,19ff. 2 Sam 3,33f. tetrameter, Ezk 27,3ff. Ezk 28,12ff. Ezk 32,2ff. hexameter; see Br^{Gen.Intr. 379 ff}.