Lamentations 5:10
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עוֹר
ʻôwr
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
שָׁחֹר
shâchôr
properly, dusky, but also (absol.) jetty
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
יָרֵא
yârêʼ
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
Key Terms in This Verse
פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
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.
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 flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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