# Kinah

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Not to be confused with [Kinnot](/source/Kinnot).

**[Kinah](/source/Kinnot)** (Hebrew: קִינָה), also **ḳinah**[1] or **qinah** (, **kinoth**, **qinot**, or **qinoth**), is [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language) for a dirge or lamentation. Its general meaning is a [dirge](/source/Dirge) or [lament](/source/Lament), especially as sung by Jewish female [professional mourners](/source/Professional_mourners). Specifically, it can refer to one of the many Hebrew [elegies](/source/Elegies) traditionally chanted on [Tisha B'Av](/source/Tisha_B'Av). The [Christian](/source/Christianity) [Jerusalem Bible](/source/Jerusalem_Bible) refers to [Isaiah 47](/source/Isaiah_47) as a *qinah* or "lament for [Babylon](/source/Babylon)",[2] and to [Ezekiel 19](/source/Ezekiel_19) as a *qinah* or lamentation over the rulers of Israel.[3] A. W. Streane suggested that Jeremiah 22:6–7,[4] concerning the prophesied destruction of Jerusalem, was written "in Ḳinah metre".[5]

**Kinah** was also the name of a city in the south of the [Kingdom of Judah](/source/Kingdom_of_Judah) related in the [book of Joshua](/source/Book_of_Joshua) 15:22.[6] It was probably not far from the [Dead Sea](/source/Dead_Sea), in the Wady Fikreh.[7]

## References

1. [Jewish Encyclopedia](/source/Jewish_Encyclopedia), [ḲINAH (plural, ḳinot)](http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5216-dirge), accessed 10 February 2019

1. [Jerusalem Bible](/source/Jerusalem_Bible) (1966), sub-title to Isaiah 47

1. Jerusalem Bible (1966), sub-title to Ezekiel 19 and footnote *a*

1. Streane, A. W. (1911), [Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges](https://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/jeremiah/22.htm) om Jeremiah 22, accessed 10 February 2019

1. Easton, Matthew George (1897), [Kinah](https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/kinah.html) in *Easton's Bible Dictionary* (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.

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