“... For public lamentation, wailing women were engaged to mourn and cry aloud, sing the wailing song (qīnāh), and perform expressive body rites (Jeremiah 9:16, 19; Ezekiel 32:16; 2 Chronicles 35:25). The inclusion of wailing woman, most likely recruited from the larger family and neighborhoods, illustrates that mourning the dead crossed the realm of nuclear and joint families to include the broader community (such as the co-residential lineage [mišpāhāh], the village, or the neighbors) and to make public the hole that had been made by the death. ...”