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.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.
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5:9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
5:10*‖Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
Selected passage5:11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
5:11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.