Kinnot
Sign in to saveKinnot (; also kinnos, kinoth, qinot, qinoth; , qinah or kinnah) are Hebrew dirges (sad poems) or elegies. The term is used to refer both to dirges in the Hebrew Bible and to latterly-composed poems that Jews traditionally recite on Tisha B'Av.
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10 sectionsContents
- In the Bible
- Tisha B'Av recitation
- Development of the Ashkenazic ''kinnot''
- Sephardic ''kinnot''
- Evening ''kinnot''
- Morning ''kinnot''
- ''Kinnot'' in memory of the Holocaust
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Kinnot (; also kinnos, kinoth, qinot, qinoth; , qinah or kinnah) are Hebrew dirges (sad poems) or elegies. The term is used to refer both to dirges in the Hebrew Bible and to latterly-composed poems that Jews traditionally recite on Tisha B'Av.
==In the Bible==
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