Lamentations 4:5
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָעָה
râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frien...
מַעֲדָן
maʻădân
a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully)
שָׁמֵם
shâmêm
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
שָׁנִי
shânîy
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
חָבַק
châbaq
to clasp (the hands or in embrace)
English grammatical function word ('dunghills'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivale...
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('dunghills'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are ...
Study GRAM →מַעֲדָן maʻădân
a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully)
Study H4574 →שָׁנִי shânîy
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
Study H8144 →רָעָה râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Study H7462 →שָׁמֵם shâmêm
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Study H8074 →Cross References
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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