Original Language Studio
2 Chronicles 35:25
“And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6969 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- lament, mourning woman.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יְקוֹנֵ֣ן — verb Polel, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 8 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Samuel 1:172 Samuel 3:33Jeremiah 9:16Ezekiel 27:32Ezekiel 32:16
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read קוּן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.