STRONGS NUMBER H5204


Word Summary
niy: wailing
Original Word: נִי
Transliteration: niy
Phonetic Spelling: (nee)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: wailing
Meaning: lamentation
Strong's Concordance
wailing

A doubtful word; apparently from nahah; lamentation -- wailing.

see HEBREW nahah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5204. niy

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

הִי

noun [masculine] si vera lectio, wailing (= (נְ)הִי‎) q. v.) Ezekiel 2:10 וָהִ֑י‎, where probably read וּנְהִי‎ Ol Co, compare Berthol ("" והגה קינים‎).