Kinah or
qinah (plural
kinoth, qinot, qinoth) is
Hebrew for dirge or lamentation. Its general meaning is a
dirge or
lament, especially as sung by Jewish professional mourning women. Specifically, it refers to a
Hebrew elegy chanted traditionally on the
Ninth of Ab.
Kinah was also a city in the extreme south of Judah (). It was probably not far from the Dead Sea, in the Wady Fikreh.