Lamentations 3:51

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵינִי֙ עֽוֹלְלָ֣ה לְנַפְשִׁ֔י מִכֹּ֖ל בְּנ֥וֹת עִירִֽי׃

Transliteration

ʿênî ʿôlelâ to napšî from all benôt ʿîrî

Grammar Details

• *ʿênî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my eye
• *ʿôlelâ*: verb, polel perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - brings pain
• *napšî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
• *benôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - daughters of
• *ʿîrî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my city

Word Meanings

• *ʿôlelâ*: brings pain/hurts/afflicts
• *napšî*: my soul/my life/myself
• *benôt*: daughters of/women of

Referenced Verses

• Gen 44:34 : 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
• 1 Sam 30:3-4 : 3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. 4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
• Jer 4:19-21 : 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
• Jer 11:22 : 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
• Jer 14:16 : 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
• Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
• Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
• Lam 1:18 : 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
• Lam 2:21 : 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
• Lam 5:11 : 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
• Luke 19:41-44 : 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.