Kinah (), also ḳinahJewish Encyclopedia, ḲINAH (plural, ḳinot), accessed 10 February 2019 or qinah (, kinoth, qinot, or qinoth), is Hebrew for a dirge or lamentation. Its general meaning is a dirge or lament, especially as sung by Jewish female professional mourners. Specifically, it can refer to one of the many Hebrew elegies traditionally chanted on Tisha B'Av. The Christian Jerusalem Bible refers to Isaiah 47 as a qinah or "lament for Babylon",Jerusalem Bible (1966), sub-title to Isaiah 47 and to Ezekiel 19 as a qinah or lamentation over the rulers of Israel.Jerusalem Bible (1966), sub-title to Ezekiel 19 and footnote a A. W. Streane suggested that Jeremiah 22:6–7, concerning the prophesied destruction of Jerusalem, was written "in Ḳinah metre".Streane, A. W. (1911), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges om Jeremiah 22, accessed 10 February 2019
Kinah was also the name of a city in the south of the Kingdom of Judah related in the book of Joshua 15:22. It was probably not far from the Dead Sea, in the Wady Fikreh.Easton, Matthew George (1897), Kinah in Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.
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