Occurrences
Nᵉhîy occurs 7 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Jeremiah (5), Amos (1), Micah (1)
- Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing (וָנֶ֗הִי), 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 — And let them make haste, and take up a wailing (נֶ֑הִי) for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
- Jeremiah 9:19 — For a voice of wailing (נְהִ֛י) 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 — 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 (נֶ֔הִי), and every one her neighbour lamentation.
- Jeremiah 31:15 — Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation (נְהִי֙), and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
- Amos 5:16 — 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 (נֶֽהִי) to wailing.
- Micah 2:4 — In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation (נְהִ֤י), 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.