קִינֵן

Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?

Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers recite laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”