Bible Verse Dictionary
Lamentations 1:19 - Sought
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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I called | H7121 | קָרָא |
[Verb] to call out to (that {is} properly address by {name} but used in a wide variety of applications) |
for my lovers | H157 | אָהַב |
[Verb] to have affection for (sexually or otherwise) |
but they | H1992 | הֵם |
[Masculine] they (only used when emphatic) |
deceived | H7411 | רָמָה |
[Verb] to hurl; specifically to shoot; figuratively to delude or betray (as if causing to fall) |
me my priests | H3548 | כֹּהֵן |
[Noun Masculine] literally one {officiating} a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman) |
and mine elders | H2205 | זָקֵן |
[Adjective] old |
gave up the ghost | H1478 | גָּוַע |
[Verb] to breathe {out} that {is} (by implication) expire |
in the city | H5892 | עִיר |
[Noun Masculine] From H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) |
while | H3588 | כִּי |
[Conjunction] (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed |
they | H1992 | הֵם |
[Masculine] they (only used when emphatic) |
sought | H1245 | בָּקַשׁ |
[Verb] to search out (by any method; specifically in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after |
their meat | H400 | אֹכֶל |
[Noun Masculine] food |
to relieve | H7725 | שׁוּב |
[Verb] to turn back ({hence} away) transitively or {intransitively} literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbially again |
their souls | H5315 | נֶפֶשׁ |
[Noun Feminine] properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.