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Joel 1:8

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He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast [it] away; the branches thereof are made white.	Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.	The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Lament^H421 like a virgin^H1330 girded^H2296 with sackcloth^H8242 for the husband^H1167 of her youth^H5271.

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Original Hebrew

אֱלִי כִּבְתוּלָה חֲגֻרַת־שַׂק עַל־בַּעַל נְעוּרֶיהָ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אֱלִ֕י	'e.Li	H421	HVqv2fs	wail
כִּ/בְתוּלָ֥ה	ki/v.tu.Lah	H1330	HR/Ncfsa	like/ a virgin
חֲגֻֽרַת	cha.gu.rat-	H2296	HVqsfsc	girded of
שַׂ֖ק	sak	H8242	HNcmsa	sackcloth
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	on
בַּ֥עַל	Ba.'al	H1167	HNcmsc	(the) husband of
נְעוּרֶֽי/הָ	ne.'u.Rei./ha	H5271	HNcbpc/Sp3fs	youth(s)/ her

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

Strong's References

• H421 — אָלָה (ʼâlâh, aw-law'): a primitive root (rather identical with אָלָה through the idea of invocation); to bewail; lament.
• H1167 — בַּעַל (baʻal, bah'-al): from בָּעַל; a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense); [phrase] archer, [phrase] babbler, [phrase] bird, captain, chief man, [phrase] confederate, [phrase] have to do, [phrase] dreamer, those to whom it is due, [phrase] furious, those that are given to it, great, [phrase] hairy, he that hath it, have, [phrase] horseman, husband, lord, man, [phrase] married, master, person, [phrase] sworn, they of.
• H1330 — בְּתוּלָה (bᵉthûwlâh, beth-oo-law'): feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to separate; a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state; maid, virgin.
• H2296 — חָגַר (châgar, khaw-gar'): a primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.); be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, [idiom] on every side.
• H5271 — נָעוּר (nâʻûwr, naw-oor'): or נָעֻר; and (feminine) נְעֻרָה; properly, passive participle from נַעַר as denominative; (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people); childhood, youth.
• H8242 — שַׂק (saq, sak): from שָׁקַק; properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.); sack(-cloth, -clothes).

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

• H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• Lament — Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 24:7-12, Isaiah 32:11, Jeremiah 9:17-19, Joel 1:13-15, Joel 2:12-14, James 4:8-9, James 5:1
• the husband — Proverbs 2:17, Jeremiah 3:4, Malachi 2:15

Reciprocal references (8): Deuteronomy 28:16, Psalms 69:11, Isaiah 3:24, Jeremiah 2:3, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 2:10, Amos 5:16, Micah 2:4

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: JOY-SORROW
• Nave’s: NATION, SACKCLOTH

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