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Lamentations 4:8 — King James Version← Study notes

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.


Lamentations 4:8Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Lamentations 4:813 words
HebrewMeaning
חָשַׁ֤ךְḥāšakə
be blackverbH2821
be dark · darken · cause darkness · be dim ···
מִ/שְּׁחוֹר֙mišəḥwōr
coalpronH7815
תָּֽאֳרָ֔/םtāʾŏrām
countenancenounH8389
beautiful · comely · fair · favoured ···
לֹ֥אlōʾ
ereparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
נִכְּר֖וּnikərw
acknowledgeverbH5234
could · deliver · discern · dissemble ···
בַּ/חוּצ֑וֹתbaḥwṣwōt
abroadpronH2351
field · forth · highway · more ···
צָפַ֤דṣāpad
cleaveverbH6821
עוֹרָ/ם֙ʿwōrām
hidenounH5785
leather · skin
עַלʿal
abovepronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
עַצְמָ֔/םʿaṣəmām
bodynounH6106
bone · life · same · strength ···
יָבֵ֖שׁyābēš
be ashamedverbH3001
clean · be confounded · dry · shame ···
הָיָ֥הhāyāh
beaconverbH1961
altogether · be · accomplished · committed ···
כָ/עֵֽץkāʿēṣ
gallowspronH6086
carpenter · helve · pine · plank ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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