Lamentations 5:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּחוּרִים֙ טְח֣וֹן נָשָׂ֔אוּ וּנְעָרִ֖ים בָּעֵ֥ץ כָּשָֽׁלוּ׃

Transliteration

baḥûrîm ṭəḥôn nāśāʾû, and-nəʿārîm with-the-ʿēṣ kāšālû

Grammar Details

*baḥûrîm*: noun masculine plural - young men
*ṭəḥôn*: qal infinitive construct - to grind
*nāśāʾû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they carried/bore
*nəʿārîm*: noun masculine plural - boys/youths
*ʿēṣ*: noun masculine singular - wood/tree
*kāšālû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they stumbled/staggered

Word Meanings

*baḥûrîm*: young men/chosen men
*ṭəḥôn*: to grind (millstones)/grinding work
*nāśāʾû*: they carried/bore/lifted
*nəʿārîm*: boys/youths/lads
*ʿēṣ*: wood/tree/timber (possibly referring to heavy loads)
*kāšālû*: they stumbled/staggered/fell

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Referenced Verses

Judg 16:21 : 21 And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the {H631} prison-house.
Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. 2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live. 3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
Job 31:10 : 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
Isa 47:2 : 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Isa 58:6 : 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Matt 23:4 : 4 Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
Exod 1:11 : 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exod 2:11 : 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exod 11:5 : 5 and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.
Exod 23:5 : 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release [it] with him.

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