a.nah occurs in scenes of grief, describing lament amid loss and devastation.

The attested forms occur in portrayals of public grief: fishers mourn when their work is undone, and a city's entrances mourn amid desolation.

1. Grieving amid loss and desolation · dominant

   Both attested forms are tagged Adverb. In Isaiah 19:8 the form occurs in the scene of fishers who cast hooks and spread nets, where the APB renders that they “will lament” and “will mourn”; in Isaiah 3:26 it occurs in the scene of a city's emptied entrances, where the APB renders that they “will lament and mourn.”

   Isaiah 19:8Isaiah 3:26

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents both verses with “lament” and “mourn” in their grief-filled clauses. The precise contribution of the individual form cannot be isolated beyond this shared context.