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Lamentations 4:8
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Lamentations 4:8
8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
8†Their visage is blacker then a cole: they are not knowen in the streets: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a sticke.
- Heb. darker then blacknesse.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 4:8
The face, countenance, or outward appearance.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
A piece of wood, or other combustible substance, ignited, burning, or charred.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering; also, to strip off the skin or hide.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To split or divide; in a different sense, to cling closely or remain joined.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Faded; dried; shrunk.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
A cut branch, rod, or slender piece of wood.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Open the full verse study30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Open the full verse study3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
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Open the full verse study20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Open the full verse study83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
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Open the full verse study12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
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Open the full verse study17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Open the full verse study21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
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Open the full verse study6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
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Open the full verse study1HOW is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
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Open the full verse study10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
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Open the full verse study11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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Open the full verse study4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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Open the full verse study3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
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Open the full verse study19¶ So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
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