Lamentations 2:9

Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data

"Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD."

Word-by-Word Analysis

Her

שַׁעַר

shaʻar

H8179

an opening, i.e. door or gate

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are

טָבַע

ṭâbaʻ

H2883

to sink

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into the

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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he hath

שָׁמַד

shâmad

H8045

to desolate

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and

שָׁבַר

shâbar

H7665

to burst (literally or figuratively)

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her

בְּרִיחַ

bᵉrîyach

H1280

a bolt

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her

מֶלֶךְ

melek

H4428

a king

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and her

שַׂר

sar

H8269

a head person (of any rank or class)

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are

תָּוֶךְ

tâvek

H8432

a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre

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the

גּוֹי

gôwy

H1471

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

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the

תּוֹרָה

tôwrâh

H8451

a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch

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is no more her

נָבִיא

nâbîyʼ

H5030

a prophet or (generally) inspired man

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also

מָצָא

mâtsâʼ

H4672

properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present

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no

חָזוֹן

châzôwn

H2377

a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation, or oracle

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from the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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Key Terms in This Verse

sunk H2883

טָבַע ṭâbaʻ

to sink

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bars H1280

בְּרִיחַ bᵉrîyach

a bolt

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vision H2377

חָזוֹן châzôwn

a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation, or oracle

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Gentiles H1471

גּוֹי gôwy

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

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gates H8179

שַׁעַר shaʻar

an opening, i.e. door or gate

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find H4672

מָצָא mâtsâʼ

properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present

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destroyed H8045

שָׁמַד shâmad

to desolate

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broken H7665

שָׁבַר shâbar

to burst (literally or figuratively)

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ground H776

אֶרֶץ ʼerets

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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prophets H5030

נָבִיא nâbîyʼ

a prophet or (generally) inspired man

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Cross References

Ezekiel 7:26 cross-reference

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Hosea 3:4 cross-reference

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

Psalm 74:9 cross-reference

We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

2 Chronicles 15:3 cross-reference

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Nehemiah 1:3 cross-reference

And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burne...

Deuteronomy 28:36 cross-reference

The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

Jeremiah 51:30 cross-reference

The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

Lamentations 4:15 cross-reference

They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

2 Kings 25:7 cross-reference

And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

Lamentations 4:20 cross-reference

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

Jeremiah 39:2 cross-reference

And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

Jeremiah 39:8 cross-reference

And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:14 cross-reference

Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a ...

Jeremiah 52:14 cross-reference

And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

Lamentations 1:3 cross-reference

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

Ezekiel 17:20 cross-reference

And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

Ezekiel 12:13 cross-reference

My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

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