Lamentations 3:10

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Lamentations 3:10


← Lamentations 3:9 Lamentations 3:10 (KJV) Lamentations 3:11 →
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 bearH1677 lying in waitH693, and as a lionH738 in secret placesH4565.


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 כ] (אֲרִ֖י ק)
[ʼărîy כ] ('ar.yeh ק) H738 כ HNcmsa (a lion ק)
בְּ/מִסְתָּרִֽים
be./mis.ta.Rim H4565 HR/Ncmpa in/ hiding places
Where the Hebrew text is written one way but traditionally read another, both are shown: [written form כ] (Ketiv) and (read form ק) (Qere).
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) [(ʼaryêh)]; from אָרָה (ʼârâh) H717 (in the sense of violence); a lion; (young) lion, [phrase] pierce (from the margin).
  • H1677 — דֹּב (dôb, dobe): or (fully) דּוֹב (dôwb); from דָּבַב (dâbab) H1680; the bear (as slow); bear.
  • H4565 — מִסְתָּר (miçtâr, mis-tawr'): from סָתַר (çâthar) H5641; 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 (hîyʼ); 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.
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Reciprocal references (1): Job 16:9

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