Lamentations 3:5

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My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.	He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.	He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

He hath builded against^H1129 me, and compassed^H5362 me with gall^H7219 and travail^H8513.

Original Hebrew

בָּנָה עָלַי וַיַּקַּף רֹאשׁ וּתְלָאָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
בָּנָ֥ה	ba.Nah	H1129	HVqp3ms	he has built
עָלַ֛/י	'a.La/i	H5921	HR/Sp1cs	on/ me
וַ/יַּקַּ֖ף	va/i.ya.Kaf	H5362	HC/Vhw3ms	and/ he has surrounded (me)
רֹ֥אשׁ	rosh	H7219	HNcmsa	poison
וּ/תְלָאָֽה	u./te.la.'Ah	H8513	HC/Ncfsa	and/ hardship

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

Strong's References

H1129 — בָּנָה (bânâh, baw-naw'): a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively); (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.
H5362 — נָקַף (nâqaph, naw-kaf'): a primitive root; to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate; compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
H7219 — רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh, roshe): or רוֹשׁ; (Deuteronomy 32:32), apparently the same as רֹאשׁ; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents); gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
H8513 — תְּלָאָה (tᵉlâʼâh, tel-aw-aw'): from לָאָה; distress; travail, travel, trouble.

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)

builded — Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7-9
gall — Psalms 69:21, Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 23:15, Lamentations 3:19

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