MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
The 1611 reading
¶ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of roar, meaning to make such a sound, especially in distress or fierceness.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 4:10
Complete exact-word concordance
MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
¶ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
They gaped vpon me with their mouthes, as a rauening and a roaring Lyon.
1611 marginal noteHeb. opened their mouthes against me.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Crying like a bull or lion; uttering a deep loud sound.