Lamentations 5:3
Strong's Lexicon
We have become
הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ (hā·yî·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

fatherless
(וְאֵ֣ין) (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: 1) nothing, not, nought n 1a) nothing, nought neg 1b) not 1c) to have not (of possession) adv 1d) without w/prep 1e) for lack of

אָ֔ב (’āḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: 1) father of an individual 2) of God as father of his people 3) head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan 4) ancestor 4a) grandfather, forefathers -- of person 4b) of people 5) originator or patron of a class, profession, or art 6) of producer, generator (fig.) 7) of benevolence and protection (fig.) 8) term of respect and honour 9) ruler or chief (spec.)

orphans;
יְתוֹמִ֤ים (yə·ṯō·w·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3490: 1) an orphan, fatherless

our mothers
אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ (’im·mō·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 517: 1) mother 1a) of humans 1b) of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.) 1c) of animals 2) point of departure or division

are widows.
כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃ (kə·’al·mā·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 490: 1) widow

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Young's Literal Translation
Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We have become orphans, fatherless ; our mothers are widows.

New American Standard Bible
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.

King James Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.

New Living Translation
We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.

English Standard Version
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

New American Standard Bible
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.

King James Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.

International Standard Version
We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows.

NET Bible
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

American Standard Version
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

English Revised Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Young's Literal Translation
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.
















Cross References
Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8
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 upon the city.

Jeremiah 18:21
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 death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Lamentations 4:22
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

Lamentations 5:4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5:5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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