Lamentations 3:10

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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.	He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.	He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

He was unto me as a bear^H1677 lying in wait^H693, and as a lion^H738 in secret places^H4565.

Original Hebrew

דֹּב אֹרֵב הוּא לִי [אַרְיֵה כ] (אֲרִי ק) בְּמִסְתָּרִים׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
דֹּ֣ב	do	H1677	HNcmsa	(is) a bear
אֹרֵ֥ב	'o.Rev	H693	HVqrmsa	lying in wait
הוּא֙	hu'	H1931	HPp3ms	he
לִ֔/י	L/i		HR/Sp1cs	to/ me
אריה	ʼărîy	H738	HNcmsa
בְּ/מִסְתָּרִֽים	be./mis.ta.Rim	H4565	HR/Ncmpa	in/ hiding places

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

Strong's References

H693 — אָרַב (ʼârab, aw-rab'): a primitive root; to lurk; (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
H738 — אֲרִי (ʼărîy, ar-ee'): or (prolonged) [ar-yay']; from אָרָה (in the sense of violence); a lion; (young) lion, [phrase] pierce (from the margin).
H1677 — דֹּב (dôb, dobe): or (fully) דּוֹב; from דָּבַב; the bear (as slow); bear.
H4565 — מִסְתָּר (miçtâr, mis-tawr'): from סָתַר; properly, a concealer, i.e. a covert; secret(-ly, place).

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

H1931 — הוּא (hûwʼ, hoo): of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.

Cross References

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

in secret — Psalms 10:9, Psalms 17:12
unto — Job 10:16, Isaiah 38:13, Hosea 5:14, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 13:7-8, Amos 5:18-20

Reciprocal references (1): Job 16:9

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