Lamentations 4:8
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
תֹּאַר
tôʼar
outline, i.e. figure or appearance
חָשַׁךְ
châshak
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
יָדַע
yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
עוֹר
ʻôwr
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
דָּבַק
dâbaq
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
עֶצֶם
ʻetsem
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
יָבֵשׁ
yâbêsh
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
הָיָה
hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
עֵץ
ʻêts
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
Key Terms in This Verse
חָשַׁךְ châshak
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
Study H2821 →דָּבַק dâbaq
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
Study H1692 →יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Study H3001 →עֶצֶם ʻetsem
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
Study H6106 →הָיָה hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Study H1961 →Cross References
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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