Lamentations 5:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃

Transliteration

ʿôrēnû like-tannûr niḵmārû from-pənê zalʿăp̄ôṯ rāʿāḇ

Grammar Details

*ʿôrēnû*: noun masculine singular construct with 1st person plural suffix - our skin
*tannûr*: noun masculine singular - oven/furnace
*niḵmārû*: niphal perfect 3rd common plural - they are scorched
*pənê*: noun masculine plural construct - faces of
*zalʿăp̄ôṯ*: noun feminine plural construct - raging heat of
*rāʿāḇ*: noun masculine singular - hunger/famine

Word Meanings

*ʿôrēnû*: our skin/hide
*tannûr*: oven/furnace
*niḵmārû*: they are scorched/burned/hot
*zalʿăp̄ôṯ*: raging heat/burning blast/fever
*rāʿāḇ*: hunger/famine/starvation

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Lam 4:8 : 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

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