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Lamentations 3:16
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Lamentations 3:16
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
16‖He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
- Or, rolled me in the ashes.
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Lamentations 3:16
The hard structures in the mouth used for biting or chewing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Small stones or fragments of stone, or very small pebbles, larger than the particles of sand, but often intermixed with them.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Pieces or masses of rock; or, as a verb, strikes with stones, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The powdery residue left after burning; also a sign of mourning, humiliation, or ruin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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Open the full verse study26¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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Open the full verse study7Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
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Open the full verse study6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
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Open the full verse study8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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Open the full verse study10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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Open the full verse study6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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Open the full verse study11If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
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Open the full verse study9Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
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Open the full verse study9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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