Lamentations 5:2
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Word-by-Word Analysis
נַחֲלָה
nachălâh
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
הָפַךְ
hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
זוּר
zûwr
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
ἀπαλλοτριόω
apallotrióō
to estrange away, i.e. (passively and figuratively) to be non-participant
Key Terms in This Verse
ἀπαλλοτριόω apallotrióō
to estrange away, i.e. (passively and figuratively) to be non-participant
Study G526 →זוּר zûwr
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
Study H2114 →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →נַחֲלָה nachălâh
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
Study H5159 →הָפַךְ hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
Study H2015 →Cross References
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
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