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Lamentations 2:12

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← Lamentations 2:11	Lamentations 2:12 (KJV)	Lamentations 2:13 →
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.	They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.	What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach [is] great like the sea: who can heal thee?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

They say^H559 to their mothers^H517, Where is corn^H1715 and wine^H3196? when they swooned^H5848 as the wounded^H2491 in the streets^H7339 of the city^H5892, when their soul^H5315 was poured out^H8210 into their mothers^H517' bosom^H2436.

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Original Hebrew

לְאִמֹּתָם יֹאמְרוּ אַיֵּה דָּגָן וָיָיִן בְּהִתְעַטְּפָם כֶּחָלָל בִּרְחֹבֹות עִיר בְּהִשְׁתַּפֵּךְ נַפְשָׁם אֶל־חֵיק אִמֹּתָם׃ ס

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
לְ/אִמֹּתָ/ם֙	le./'i.mo.Ta/m	H517	HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp	to/ mothers/ their
יֹֽאמְר֔וּ	yo.me.Ru	H559	HVqi3mp	they say
אַיֵּ֖ה	'ai.Yeh	H346	HTi	where?
דָּגָ֣ן	da.Gan	H1715	HNcmsa	(are) grain
וָ/יָ֑יִן	va./Ya.yin	H3196	HC/Ncmsa	and/ wine
בְּ/הִֽתְעַטְּפָ֤/ם	be./hit.'a.te.Fa/m	H5848	HR/Vtc/Sp3mp	when/ faint away/ they
כֶּֽ/חָלָל֙	ke./cha.Lal	H2491	HRd/Aamsa	like (the)/ (one) fatally wounded
בִּ/רְחֹב֣וֹת	bi/r.cho.Vot	H7339	HR/Ncfpc	in/ (the) open places of
עִ֔יר	'Ir	H5892	HNcfsa	a city
בְּ/הִשְׁתַּפֵּ֣ךְ	be./hish.ta.Pekh	H8210	HR/Vtc	when/ pours itself out
נַפְשָׁ֔/ם	naf.Sha/m	H5315	HNcbsc/Sp3mp	life/ their
אֶל	'el-	H413	HR	to
חֵ֖יק	cheik	H2436	HNcmsc	(the) bosom of
אִמֹּתָֽ/ם	'i.mo.Ta/m	H517	HNcfpc/Sp3mp	mothers/ their

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

Strong's References

• H517 — אֵם (ʼêm, ame): a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father)); dam, mother, [idiom] parting.
• H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
• H1715 — דָּגָן (dâgân, daw-gawn'): from דָּגָה; properly, increase, i.e. grain; corn (floor), wheat.
• H2436 — חֵיק (chêyq, khake): or חֵק; and חוֹק; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively); bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.
• H2491 — חָלָל (châlâl, khaw-lawl'): from חָלַל; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted; kill, profane, slain (man), [idiom] slew, (deadly) wounded.
• H3196 — יַיִן (yayin, yah'-yin): from an unused root meaning to effervesce; wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication; banqueting, wine, wine(-bibber).
• 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.
• H5848 — עָטַף (ʻâṭaph, aw-taf'): a primitive root; to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish; cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.
• H5892 — עִיר (ʻîyr, eer): or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from עוּר; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post); Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
• H7339 — רְחֹב (rᵉchôb, rekh-obe'): or רְחוֹב; from רָחַב; a width, i.e. (concretely) avenue or area; broad place (way), street. See also בֵּית רְחוֹב.
• H8210 — שָׁפַךְ (shâphak, shaw-fak'): a primitive root; to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out; cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.

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

• H346 — אַיֵּה (ʼayêh, ah-yay'): prolonged from אַי; where?; where.
• H413 — אֵל (ʼêl, ale): (but only used in the shortened constructive form אֶל ); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e.; near, with or among; often in general, to; about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, [idiom] hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).

Cross References

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

• as the — Ezekiel 30:24
• soul — Isaiah 53:12

Reciprocal references (9): Genesis 35:18, Deuteronomy 28:18, Isaiah 51:20, Jeremiah 37:21, Lamentations 1:11, Lamentations 2:19, Lamentations 4:4, Luke 10:30, John 1:18

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: ABUNDANCE-WANT
• Nave’s: FAINTING, FAMINE

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