Lamentations 5:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell 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 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Neh 5:1-5 : 1 And there was 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: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. 3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and 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 unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and 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: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Isa 58:6 : 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Matt 23:4 : 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Exod 1:11 : 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exod 2:11 : 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exod 11:5 : 5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Exod 23:5 : 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

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