Qun קִינֵן

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Qun (Hebrew קִינֵן, Strong's H6969) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to chant”. It occurs 8 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to chant a dirge, chant, wail, lament
1a) (Polel) to lament

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	lament (4), lamented (3), women (1)
BSB	took up (1), sang this lament (1), lamented (1), wailing women (1), mourn (1), is the lament (1), will chant it (1), they will chant it (1)

Every verse with Qun, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
2 Samuel 3:33
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?

2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

Jeremiah 9:17
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Ezekiel 27:32
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?
Ezekiel 32:16
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).