Lamentations

book of the Hebrew Bible
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Lamentations
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Lamentations

Summary

Lamentations is a religious text[1]. Lamentations draws 1,817 Wikipedia views per month (religious_text category, ranking #43 of 234).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lamentations's instance of is recorded as religious text[3].
  • Lamentations's instance of is recorded as book of the Bible[4].
  • Lamentations's genre is prophetic books[5].
  • Lamentations is part of Five Megillot[6].
  • Lamentations is part of Ketuvim[7].
  • Lamentations is part of Old Testament[8].
  • Lamentations is part of Major prophets[9].
  • Lamentations's Commons category is recorded as Book of Lamentations[10].
  • Lamentations's language of work or name is recorded as Late Biblical Hebrew[11].
  • Lamentations comprises Lamentations 1[12].
  • Lamentations comprises Lamentations 2[13].
  • Lamentations comprises Lamentations 3[14].
  • Lamentations comprises Lamentations 4[15].
  • Lamentations comprises Lamentations 5[16].
  • Lamentations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q84018737[17].
  • Lamentations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q113742748[18].
  • Lamentations's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Book of Lamentations[19].
  • Lamentations's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[20].
  • Lamentations's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[21].
  • Lamentations's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[22].
  • Lamentations's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • Lamentations's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[24].
  • Lamentations's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[25].
  • Lamentations's topic has template is recorded as Template:Book of Lamentations[26].
  • Lamentations's title is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Klagelieder Jeremias'}[27].

Body

Publication

Lamentations's language of work or name is recorded as Late Biblical Hebrew[11]. Lamentations's genre is prophetic books[5]. Part of include Five Megillot[6], a group of literary works[28]; Ketuvim[7], a religious text[29]; Old Testament[8], a literary work[30], written by various authors[31]; and Major prophets[9], a religious text[32].

Why It Matters

Lamentations draws 1,817 Wikipedia views per month (religious_text category, ranking #43 of 234).[2] Lamentations has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Lamentations is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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