Lamentations 5:3
Old Testament • 4 words with Strong's data
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֵם
ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh
a widow; also a desolate place
Key Terms in This Verse
אֵם ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
Study H517 →Cross References
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to dea...
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors ...
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