Lamentations 5:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־זֶ֗ה הָיָ֤ה דָוֶה֙ לִבֵּ֔נוּ עַל־אֵ֖לֶּה חָשְׁכ֥וּ עֵינֵֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

For-zeh hāyâ ḏāweh libbēnû, for-ʾēlleh ḥāšəḵû ʿênênû

Grammar Details

*zeh*: demonstrative pronoun masculine singular - this
*hāyâ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - it has become
*ḏāweh*: adjective masculine singular - faint/sick
*libbēnû*: noun masculine singular construct with 1st person plural suffix - our heart
*ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun plural - these
*ḥāšəḵû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they have grown dim
*ʿênênû*: noun feminine dual construct with 1st person plural suffix - our eyes

Word Meanings

*ḏāweh*: faint/sick/ill
*libbēnû*: our heart/mind/inner being
*ḥāšəḵû*: they have grown dim/darkened/become dim
*ʿênênû*: our eyes (dimming eyes signifies grief or weakness)

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Referenced Verses

Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Job 17:7 : 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Ps 6:7 : 7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Ps 31:9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary{H8804)} of my crying{H8800)}: my throat is dried{H8738)}: mine eyes fail{H8804)} while I wait{H8764)} for my God.
Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Jer 8:18 : 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Jer 46:5 : 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Lam 1:13 : 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lam 1:22 : 22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Ezek 21:7 : 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezek 21:15 : 15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Lev 26:36 : 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

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