Lamentations 4:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נָע֤וּ עִוְרִים֙ בַּֽחוּצ֔וֹת נְגֹֽאֲל֖וּ בַּדָּ֑ם בְּלֹ֣א יֽוּכְל֔וּ יִגְּע֖וּ בִּלְבֻשֵׁיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

They nāʿû like ʿiwrîm in the ḥûṣôṯ, they were nəḡōʾălû with the dām; with no they yûḵlû, they yiggəʿû in their bilḇušêhem

Grammar Details

*nāʿû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they wandered/staggered
*ʿiwrîm*: masculine plural adjective - blind ones
*ba-ḥûṣôṯ*: preposition + definite feminine plural noun - in the streets
*nəḡōʾălû*: Niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they were defiled/polluted
*ba-dām*: preposition + definite masculine singular noun - with the blood
*bə-lōʾ*: preposition + negative particle - with not/without
*yûḵlû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they are able
*yiggəʿû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they touch
*bi-lḇušêhem*: preposition + masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - in their garments

Word Meanings

*nāʿû*: wandered/staggered/roamed
*ʿiwrîm*: blind ones/blind people
*nəḡōʾălû*: were defiled/were polluted/were contaminated
*yûḵlû*: are able/can/could
*yiggəʿû*: touch/come in contact/handle
*lḇušêhem*: their garments/their clothes/their robes

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Referenced Verses

Jer 2:34 : 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Num 19:16 : 16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Deut 28:28-29 : 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isa 59:9-9 : 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isa 29:10-12 : 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Num 35:33 : 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Mic 3:6-7 : 6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Eph 4:18 : 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

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