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Lamentations 1

Lam. 1:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I called
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
for my lovers
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
, butz they deceived
ramah (Hebrew #7411)
to hurl; specifically, to shoot; figuratively, to delude or betray (as if causing to fall)
KJV usage: beguile, betray, (bow-)man, carry, deceive, throw.
Pronounce: raw-maw'
Origin: a primitive root
me: my priests
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
and mine elders
zaqen (Hebrew #2205)
old
KJV usage: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.
Pronounce: zaw-kane'
Origin: from 2204
gave up the ghost
gava` (Hebrew #1478)
to breathe out, i.e. (by implication) expire
KJV usage: die, be dead, give up the ghost, perish.
Pronounce: gaw-vah'
Origin: a primitive root
in the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
, while they sought
baqash (Hebrew #1245)
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Pronounce: baw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
their meat
'okel (Hebrew #400)
food
KJV usage: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
Pronounce: o'-kel
Origin: from 398
to relieve
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
their souls
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Jer. 2:28• 28Where then are thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for as the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah. (Jer. 2:28)
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Jer. 30:14• 14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. (Jer. 30:14)

More on:

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Elders,
Ghost,
Meat,
Priest; Priesthood,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Lam. 1:2• 2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;{HR}Among all her lovers she hath no comforter;{HR}All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. (Lam. 1:2)
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Lam. 4:17• 17As yet for us, our eyes failed for our vain help;{HR}On our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us. (Lam. 4:17)
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Job 19:13‑19• 13My brethren he put far away from me,{HR}And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
 14My kinsmen have ceased,{HR}And my confidants have forgotten me.
 15Guests of my house, and, my maid, count me a stranger,{HR}A foreigner I am become in their eyes.
 16I call to my servant, but he answereth not;{HR}With my mouth I make supplication to him.
 17My breath is strange to my wife,{HR}And my entreaties for the children of my body.
 18Even youngsters despise me;{HR}I rise, and they speak of me.
 19All my intimates abhorred me,{HR}And those I loved turned against me. (Job 19:13‑19)
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Jer. 2:28• 28Where then are thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for as the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah. (Jer. 2:28)
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Jer. 30:14• 14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. (Jer. 30:14)
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Jer. 37:7‑9• 7Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
 8And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
 9Thus saith Jehovah; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. (Jer. 37:7‑9)
my priests.
Lam. 1:11• 11All her people sigh, they seek bread;{HR}They have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:{HR}See, O Jehovah, and consider: for I am become vile. (Lam. 1:11)
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Lam. 2:20• 20Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this.{HR}Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?{HR}Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? (Lam. 2:20)
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Lam. 4:7‑9• 7Her Nazarites were brighter than snow, they were whiter than milk;{HR}They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their cutting (shape) of sapphire.
 8Their aspect is darker than dusk, they are not known in the streets;{HR}Their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is dried up like a stick.
 9Happier the slain with the sword than the slain with hunger;{HR}Because these pine away pierced through for the fruits of the field. (Lam. 4:7‑9)
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Lam. 5:12• 12Princes were hung up by their hand; the faces of elders they honoured not. (Lam. 5:12)
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Jer. 14:15‑18• 15Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
 16And the people to whom, they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
 17And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
 18If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not. (Jer. 14:15‑18)
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Jer. 23:11‑15• 11For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
 12Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
 13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
 14And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
 15Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:11‑15)
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Jer. 27:13‑15• 13Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
 14Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
 15For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. (Jer. 27:13‑15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I called for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests and mine elders have expired in the city, while they sought them food to revive their soula.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "life."

W. Kelly Translation

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I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:{HR}My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,{HR}While they sought their meat to relieve their souls.