Bible Question: Shalom, in "Decretum Gelasianum" there is a strange mention with this book: Hieremiae - cum Cinoth id est lamentationibus suis. I've translated this decree into our language, Finnish, but I left the word "Cinoth" untranslated. What does it mean?? |
Bible Answer: Scandanavian Disciple, I think this may answer your question on "Cinoth" or "Kinoth." "In the Greek and Latin Bibles there are five songs of lament bearing the name of Jeremias, which follow the Book of the Prophecy of Jeremias. In the Hebrew these are entitled Kinôth from their elegaic character, or the 'Ekhah songs after the first word of the first, second, and fourth elegies; in Greek they are called Threnoi, in Latin they are known as Lamentationes." from The Catholic Encyclopedia, published 1911 Emmaus |