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קין

«קין» in the Tanakh dictionary: spear — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 8 times · Key: 6969 · BDB: קין

Glosses

he.made.a.lament (3); they.will.take.as.a.lament (2); people (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

spear tree →

The whole BDB entry

(√ of foll.; cf. Arabic قَانَ fit together, fabricate (make artificially), forge (cf. WetzstSyriac Dreschtafel (1873) 297), whence قَيْنٌ worker in iron, Assyrian ḳinai (MeissnZA viii (1893), 82), 𝔗 קֵינָאָה, Syriac ܩܰܝܢܳܝܳܐ, Palm. קיניא (pl.) metal-worker, cf. BH תּוּבַל קַיִן; also Arabic قَيْنَةٌ slave-girl, and women-singer, lute-player (from skill); cf. Ethiopic ቅኔ song, singing, Syriac ܩܺܝܢܬܳܐ, hymn, elegy; Arabic vb. iv Dozy; NH קִינָה = BH; cf. also BuZAW ii (1882), 28).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «קין» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

2 Samuel 3:33

וַיְקֹנֵ֥ן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶל־אַבְנֵ֖ר וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַכְּמ֥וֹת נָבָ֖ל יָמ֥וּת אַבְנֵֽר׃

Word for word: and he.made.a.lament the king concerning Abner and he.said like [the] death? of.a.fool will.he.die Abner

JPS 1917: And the king lamented for Abner, and said: Should Abner die as a churl dieth?

2 Samuel 1:17

וַיְקֹנֵ֣ן דָּוִ֔ד אֶת־הַקִּינָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את עַל־שָׁא֖וּל וְעַל־יְהוֹנָתָ֥ן בְּנֽוֹ׃

Word for word: and he.made.a.lament David (et) the lamentation (the) this on Saul and on Jonathan son his

JPS 1917: And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

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