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Lamentations 5:3 Interlinear

“We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows”

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Lamentations 5 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	יְתוֹמִ֤ים	H3490	We are orphans	a bereaved person
2	הָיִ֙ינוּ֙	H1961		to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
3	אֵ֣ין	H369	and fatherless	a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle
4	אָ֔ב	H1		father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
5	אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ	H517	our mothers	a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
6	כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃	H490	are as widows	a widow; also a desolate place

Lamentations 5:3 (current)We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows