Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
*‖Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- ‖Alternative wordingOr, terrors or stormes.
- *Cross-referencePsal.11.38
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- Lamentations 4:8Rank 1 from verse 10
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.
- Psalms 119:83Rank 3 from verse 10
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Lamentations 5:10
Sense 1: The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering. Sense 2: To strip off the skin or hide.
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Sense 1: Of the darkest colour. Sense 2: Dark or blackened in appearance. Sense 3: Figuratively, darkened by mourning, famine, or judgment.
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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Sense 1: An enclosed heated chamber or furnace used chiefly for baking. Sense 2: Used in comparisons for consuming heat.
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Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.
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9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
10*‖Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
Selected passage11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.