Bible Verse Dictionary
Lamentations 4:3 - Embrace
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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Even | H1571 | גַּם |
[Adverb] properly assemblage; used only adverbially {also} even: {yea} though; often repeated as correlation both ... and |
the sea monsters | H8565 | תַּן |
[Noun Masculine] a monster (as preternaturally {formed}) that {is} a sea serpent (or other huge marine animal); also a jackal (or other hideous land animal) |
draw out | H2502 | חָלַץ |
[Verb] to pull off; hence (intensively) to {strip} (reflexively) to depart; by implication to {deliver} equip (for fight); {present} strengthen |
the breast | H7699 | שַׁד |
[Noun Masculine] the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging) |
they give suck | H3243 | יָנַק |
[Verb] to suck; causatively to give milk |
to their young ones | H1482 | גּוּר |
[Noun Masculine] a cub (as still abiding in the {lair}) especially of the lion |
the daughter | H1323 | בַּת |
[Noun Feminine] a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of {relationship} literally and figuratively) |
of my people | H5971 | עַם |
[Noun Masculine] a people (as a congregated unit); specifically a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively a flock |
is become cruel | H393 | אַכְזָר |
[Adjective] violent; by implication deadly; also (in a good sense) brave |
like the ostriches | H3283 | יָעֵן |
[Noun Feminine] the ostrich (probably from its answering cry) |
in the wilderness | H4057 | מִדְבָּר |
[Noun Masculine] a pasture (that {is} open {field} whither cattle are driven); by implication a desert; also speech (including its organs) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.