Qinah
Qinah is a term used mainly in the poetry of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament). It may refer to: * kinah (a variant spelling): a poetic lament or dirge * qinah (metre): the rhythm of line-pairs found in many such poems See also * kinnot Kinnot (; also kinnos, kinoth, qinot, qinoth; singular kinah, qinah or kinnah) are Hebrew dirges (sad poems) or elegies. The term is used to refer both to dirges in the Hebrew Bible, and also to later poems which are traditionally recited by Jews ...

Qinah (metre)
Qinah is a poetic metre used in various places in the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) and most notably in the Book of Lamentations. The metre describes pairs of unbalanced lines, the first having three stresses, the second having two. For example is three such line-pairs: The Lord has rejected his altar, spurned his sanctuary; He has handed over to the enemy the walls of its strongholds. They shout in the house of the as on a feast day. where bold syllables are stressed. In the Bible this 3:2 stress pattern is found in some (not all) dirges, for which the Hebrew technical term is ''qinah''. Consequently, this term also became applied to the metre itself. The metre is often described as a "limping beat", sometimes characterised as "three beats of weeping followed by two beats of sobs". Thus, qinah may also be considered a form of catalexis. Rather than Budde's late nineteenth century description of this as "metre", many scholars now ...
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Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
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Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek. The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors produced over a period of centuries. Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four sections: the first five books or Pentateuch (which corresponds to the Jewish Torah); the history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon; the poetic and wisdom literature, which explore themes of human experience, morality, and divine justice; and the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God. The Old Testament canon differs among Christian denominations. The Ea ...
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Kinah
Kinah, ḳinah or qinah (plural kinoth, qinot, qinoth) is Hebrew for a dirge or lamentation. Its general meaning is a dirge or lament, especially as sung by Jewish professional mourning women. Specifically, it can refer to one of the many Hebrew elegies chanted traditionally on Tisha B'Av. The Jerusalem Bible refers to Isaiah 47 as a ''qinah'' or "lament for Babylon", and to Ezekiel 19 as a ''qinah'' or lamentation over the rulers of Israel. A. W. Streane suggests that , on the prophesied downfall of Jerusalem, is written "in Ḳinah metre". Kinah was also a city in the extreme south of Judah (). It was probably not far from the Dead Sea The Dead Sea (; or ; ), also known by #Names, other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest. It lies in the endorheic basin of the Jordan Rift Valle ..., in the Wady Fikreh.Easton, Matthew George (1897)Kinahin ''Easton's Bible Dictionary'' (N ...
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