Strong's #5092: nhiy (pronounced neh-hee')

from 5091; an elegy:--lamentation, wailing.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nehı̂y

1) wailing, lamentation, mourning song

1a) wailing

1b) mourning song

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5091

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Jeremiah 9:10: "the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation,"
Jeremiah 9:18: "And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids"
Jeremiah 9:19: "For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled!"
Jeremiah 9:20: "of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation."
Jeremiah 31:15: "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping"
Amos 5:16: "to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing."
Micah 2:4: "against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled:"