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.

Verse Text

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 כ] (וְ/אֵ֣ין ק)	[ʼayin כ] (ve./ein ק)	H369 כ	[HTn כ] (HC/Ncmsc ק)	(and/ there not ק)
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

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

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 (ʼayin) H370.
H490 — אַלְמָנָה (ʼalmânâh, al-maw-naw'): feminine of אַלְמָן (ʼalmân) H488; 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 (hâvâʼ) H1933); 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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