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Lamentations 4:5 Interlinear

“They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills”

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Lamentations 4 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	הָאֹֽכְלִים֙	H398	They that did feed	to eat (literally or figuratively)
2	לְמַ֣עֲדַנִּ֔ים	H4574	delicately	a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully)
3	נָשַׁ֖מּוּ	H8074	are desolate	to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
4	בַּחוּצ֑וֹת	H2351	in the streets	properly, separate by a wall, i.e., outside, outdoors
5	הָאֱמֻנִים֙	H539	they that were brought up	properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen
6	עֲלֵ֣י	H5921		above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
7	תוֹלָ֔ע	H8438	in scarlet	a maggot (as voracious); specifically (often with ellipsis of h8144) the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the color from it, and cl
8	חִבְּק֖וּ	H2263	embrace	to clasp (the hands or in embrace)
9	אַשְׁפַּתּֽוֹת׃	H830	dunghills	a heap of rubbish or filth

Lamentations 4:5 (current)They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills