Lamentations 5:3

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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.	We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.	We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

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KJV with Strong's Numbers

We are orphans^H3490 and fatherless^{H369 H1}, our mothers^H517 are as widows^H490.

Original Hebrew

יְתֹומִים הָיִינוּ [אֵין כ] (וְאֵין ק) אָב אִמֹּתֵינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֹות׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
יְתוֹמִ֤ים	ye.to.Mim	H3490	HNcmpa	fatherless ones
הָיִ֨ינוּ֙	ha.Yi.nu	H1961	HVqp1cp	we have become
אין	ʼayin	H369	HTn
אָ֔ב	'Av	H1	HNcmsa	(is) a father
אִמֹּתֵ֖י/נוּ	'i.mo.Tei./nu	H517	HNcfpc/Sp1cp	mothers/ our
כְּ/אַלְמָנֽוֹת	ke./'al.ma.Not	H490	HR/Ncfpa	(are) like/ widows

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

Strong's References

H1 — אָב (ʼâb, awb): a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application; chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
H369 — אַיִן (ʼayin, ah'-yin): as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle; else, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare אַיִן.
H490 — אַלְמָנָה (ʼalmânâh, al-maw-naw'): feminine of אַלְמָן; a widow; also a desolate place; desolate house (palace), widow.
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.
H3490 — יָתוֹם (yâthôwm, yaw-thome'): from an unused root meaning to be lonely; a bereaved person; fatherless (child), orphan.

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

H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

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