King James Version
Lamentations 5:2 in the King James Version says “Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.”
Lamentations 5:2 · KJV
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. is: Heb. cometh for price
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Our inheritance”
H5159properly, something inherited, i.e., (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
“is turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
“to strangers”
H2114to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
“our houses”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“to aliens”
H5237strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
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