ne.gi.nah denotes music in settings of instruments, performance, and songs made about people.

The occurrences consistently concern music: instruments played in worshipful settings, musical accompaniment, and songs associated with a person, whether as mockery or as an activity that has ceased.

1. Music in performance and song · dominant

   The plural forms occur where the APB explicitly mentions “my stringed instruments” in Habakkuk 3:19 and Isaiah 38:20, and “with music” in Psalm 54:1. The singular construct forms also occur when Job becomes “their music” in Job 30:9 and when the people make someone “their song” in Lamentations 3:14; Lamentations 5:14 places music among the activities from which the youth have ceased.

   Habakkuk 3:19Isaiah 38:20Psalm 54:1Job 30:9Lamentations 3:14Lamentations 5:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the musical context as “my stringed instruments,” “with music,” “their music,” and “their song.” Several Psalm occurrences appear in verses whose supplied APB wording does not explicitly isolate a corresponding English term, so the translation does not provide a uniform word-level rendering.