Bible Verse Dictionary
Lamentations 4:19 - Wait
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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Our persecutors | H7291 | רָדַף |
[Verb] to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by) |
are | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
swifter | H7031 | קַל |
[Adjective] light; (by implication) rapid (also adverbially) |
than the eagles | H4480 | מִן |
[Preposition] properly a part of; hence ({prepositionally}) from or out of in many senses |
of the heaven | H8064 | שָׁמַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) |
they pursued | H1814 | דָּלַק |
[Verb] to flame (literally or figuratively) |
us upon | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the mountains | H2022 | הַר |
[Noun Masculine] a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively) |
they laid wait | H693 | אָרַב |
[Verb] to lurk |
for us 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.