kinah

{{short description|Hebrew lamentation}}

{{distinguish|Kinnot}}

Kinah, ḳinahJewish Encyclopedia, [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5216-dirge ḲINAH (plural, ḳinot)], accessed 10 February 2019 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",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 suggests that {{bibleref2|Jeremiah|22:6-7|NKJV}}, on the prophesied downfall of Jerusalem, is written "in Ḳinah metre".Streane, A. W. (1911), [https://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/jeremiah/22.htm Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges] om Jeremiah 22, accessed 10 February 2019

Kinah was also a city in the extreme south of Judah ({{bibleverse||Joshua|15:22}}). It was probably not far from the Dead Sea, in the Wady Fikreh.Easton, Matthew George (1897), [https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/kinah.html Kinah] in Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.