King James Version
Lamentations 3:51 in the King James Version says “Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. mine heart: Heb. my soul because: or, more than a...” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. mine heart: Heb. my soul because: or, more than all”
Lamentations 3:51 · KJV
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. mine heart: Heb. my soul because: or, more than all
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Mine eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“affecteth”
H5953to effect thoroughly; by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e., maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
“mine heart”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“because of all the daughters”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
“of my city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
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