Lamentations 4:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ס֣וּרוּ טָמֵ֞א קָ֣רְאוּ לָ֗מוֹ ס֤וּרוּ ס֙וּרוּ֙ אַל־תִּגָּ֔עוּ כִּ֥י נָצ֖וּ גַּם־נָ֑עוּ אָֽמְרוּ֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם לֹ֥א יוֹסִ֖יפוּ לָגֽוּר׃

Transliteration

Sûrû ṭāmēʾ they qārəʾû to them, sûrû sûrû not tiggāʿû; for they nāṣû, also they nāʿû; they ʾāmərû among the gôyim, not yôsîp̄û to lāḡûr

Grammar Details

*sûrû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - turn aside/depart
*ṭāmēʾ*: masculine singular adjective - unclean/impure
*qārəʾû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they called
*lāmô*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix (poetic) - to them
*ʾal*: negative particle - not/do not
*tiggāʿû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you touch
*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*nāṣû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they fled
*gam*: conjunction - also/even
*nāʿû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they wandered
*ʾāmərû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they said
*ba-gôyim*: preposition + definite masculine plural noun - among the nations
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yôsîp̄û*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will continue
*lāḡûr*: Qal infinitive construct - to sojourn/dwell as aliens

Word Meanings

*sûrû*: turn aside/depart/go away
*ṭāmēʾ*: unclean/impure/defiled
*nāṣû*: fled/scattered/departed
*nāʿû*: wandered/staggered/roamed
*gôyim*: nations/gentiles/peoples
*yôsîp̄û*: will continue/will add/will do again
*lāḡûr*: to sojourn/to dwell temporarily/to reside as foreigners

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Referenced Verses

Lev 13:45-46 : 45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

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10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
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19And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
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