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Jeremiah 4:31

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← Jeremiah 4:30	Jeremiah 4:31 (KJV)	Jeremiah 5:1 →
And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.	For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.	Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

For I have heard^H8085 a voice^H6963 as of a woman in travail^H2470, and the anguish^H6869 as of her that bringeth forth her first child^H1069, the voice^H6963 of the daughter^H1323 of Zion^H6726, that bewaileth^H3306 herself, that spreadeth^H6566 her hands^H3709, saying, Woe^H188 is me now! for my soul^H5315 is wearied^H5888 because of murderers^H2026.

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Original Hebrew

כִּי קֹול כְּחֹולָה שָׁמַעְתִּי צָרָה כְּמַבְכִּירָה קֹול בַּת־צִיֹּון תִּתְיַפֵּחַ תְּפָרֵשׂ כַּפֶּיהָ אֹוי־נָא לִי כִּי־עָיְפָה נַפְשִׁי לְהֹרְגִים׃ פ

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
כִּי֩	ki	H3588	HC	for
ק֨וֹל	Kol	H6963	HNcmsa	a sound
כְּ/חוֹלָ֜ה	ke./cho.Lah	H2470	HR/Vqrfsa	like/ a sick (woman)
שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי	sha.Ma'.ti	H8085	HVqp1cs	I have heard
צָרָה֙	tza.Rah	H6869	HNcfsa	distress
כְּ/מַבְכִּירָ֔ה	ke./mav.ki.Rah	H1069	HR/Vhrfsa	like/ a (woman) bearing a first child
ק֧וֹל	Kol	H6963	HNcmsc	(the) sound of
בַּת	bat-	H1323	HNcfsc	(the) daughter of
צִיּ֛וֹן	tzi.Yon	H6726	HNp	Zion
תִּתְיַפֵּ֖חַ	tit.ya.Pe.ach	H3306	HVti3fs	she is gasping for breath
תְּפָרֵ֣שׂ	te.fa.Res	H6566	HVpi3fs	she is spreading out
כַּפֶּ֑י/הָ	ka.Pei./ha	H3709	HNcfdc/Sp3fs	hands/ her
אֽוֹי	'o-	H188	HTj	woe!
נָ֣א	na'	H4994	HTe	please
לִ֔/י	L/i		HR/Sp1cs	to (the)/ me
כִּֽי	ki-	H3588	HC	for
עָיְפָ֥ה	'a.ye.Fah	H5888	HVqp3fs	it is weary
נַפְשִׁ֖/י	naf.Sh/i	H5315	HNcbsc/Sp1cs	self/ my
לְ/הֹרְגִֽים	le./ho.re.Gim	H2026	HR/Vqrmpa	to/ murderers

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H188 — אוֹי (ʼôwy, o'-ee): probably from אָוָה (in the sense of crying out after); lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!; alas, woe.
• H1069 — בָּכַר (bâkar, baw-kar'): a primitive root; properly, to burst the womb, i.e. (causatively) bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree); also (as denominative from בִּכּוּר); to give the birthright; make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).
• H1323 — בַּת (bath, bath): from בָּנָה (as feminine of בֵּן); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively); apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, [idiom] first, [idiom] old, [phrase] owl, town, village.
• H2026 — הָרַג (hârag, haw-rag'): a primitive root; to smite with deadly intent; destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), [idiom] surely.
• H2470 — חָלָה (châlâh, khaw-law'): a primitive root (compare חוּל, חָלָה, חָלַל); properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat; beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, [idiom] pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit ([idiom] supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
• H3306 — יָפַח (yâphach, yaw-fakh'): a primitive root; properly, to breathe hard, i.e. (by implication) to sigh; bewail self.
• H3709 — כַּף (kaph, kaf): from כָּפַף; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power; branch, [phrase] foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
• H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): from נָפַשׁ; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
• H5888 — עָיֵף (ʻâyêph, aw-yafe'): a primitive root; to languish; be wearied.
• H6566 — פָּרַשׂ (pâras, paw-ras'): a primitive root; to break apart, disperse, etc.; break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
• H6726 — צִיּוֹן (Tsîyôwn, tsee-yone'): the same (regularly) as צִיּוּןlemma צִיוּן missing dagesh, corrected to צִיּוּן; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem; Zion.
• H6869 — צָרָה (tsârâh, tsaw-raw'): feminine of צַר; tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:; adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
• H6963 — קוֹל (qôwl, kole): or קֹל; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound; [phrase] aloud, bleating, crackling, cry ([phrase] out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, [phrase] hold peace, (pro-) claim, proclamation, [phrase] sing, sound, [phrase] spark, thunder(-ing), voice, [phrase] yell.
• H8085 — שָׁמַע (shâmaʻ, shaw-mah'): a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.); [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, [idiom] diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), [idiom] indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, [idiom] surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H3588 — כִּי (kîy, kee): a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed; and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
• H4994 — נָא (nâʼ, naw): a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered; 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction; I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.

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