qun denotes performing a lament or dirge over the dead, a ruined city, or Egypt.

The attested usage consistently concerns the performance of lamentation: David and the king mourn named dead men, Jeremiah is associated with a lament for Josiah, and groups chant over Tyre and Egypt. The participial occurrence in Jeremiah 9:16 is present in a verse whose supplied translation does not isolate the term's contribution.

1. Performing a dirge of mourning · dominant

   In 2 Samuel 1:17, the sequential imperfect occurs where David makes a dirge concerning Saul and Jonathan; in 2 Samuel 3:33, the same form occurs as the king voices a lament over Abner. In 2 Chronicles 35:25, it concerns Jeremiah's lament for Josiah, while the plural forms in Ezekiel 27:32 and Ezekiel 32:16 describe people chanting over Tyre and Egypt; the APB renders these clauses with "chanted," "dirge," and "lament." Jeremiah 9:16 has an active participle feminine plural, but its supplied APB verse does not show the surrounding clause containing the term.

   2 Samuel 1:172 Samuel 3:332 Chronicles 35:25Ezekiel 27:32Ezekiel 32:16Jeremiah 9:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the clearer clauses, the APB presents the action with "chanted" and frames it through "dirge" or "lament." Its rendering of Jeremiah 9:16 does not display the clause containing the participial form, so that occurrence cannot be matched to a specific English expression.