Lamentations 3:5

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Lamentations 3:5


← Lamentations 3:4 Lamentations 3:5 (KJV) Lamentations 3:6 →
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 againstH1129 me, and compassedH5362 me with gallH7219 and travailH8513.


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
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 (rôwsh); (Deuteronomy 32:32), apparently the same as רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh) H7218; 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 (lâʼâh) H3811; 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 (ʻal) H5920 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.
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Reciprocal references (3): Psalms 88:17, Acts 8:23, Revelation 8:11

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