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Lamentations 5:3
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Lamentations 5:3
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
3We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.
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Lamentations 5:3
Female parents; also women regarded as sources, protectors, or ancestral figures.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Women whose husbands have died.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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Open the full verse study21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
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Open the full verse study3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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Open the full verse study8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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