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נְהִי H5092
H5092 is the Hebrew word נְהִי, transliterated nᵉhîy and said neh-hee'. The King James Version most often renders it wailing.
What it means
an elegy.
Where it comes from
from H5091 (נָהָה).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 7 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: lamentation, wailing.
Verses using נְהִי
All 7 verses, quoted in full.
Jeremiah 9:10 · KJV
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:18 · KJV
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah 9:19 · KJV
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Jeremiah 9:20 · KJV
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
Jeremiah 31:15 · KJV
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Amos 5:16 · KJV
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Micah 2:4 · KJV
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Common questions
What does Strong's H5092 mean?
H5092 is the Hebrew word נְהִי (nᵉhîy), meaning an elegy.
How is H5092 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it wailing (4 times), lamentation (3 times).
How many times does H5092 appear in the Bible?
נְהִי (nᵉhîy) is tagged in 7 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H5092 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from H5091 (נָהָה).
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