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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He hath builded against
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
me, and compassed
naqaph (Hebrew #5362)
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
KJV usage: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
Pronounce: naw-kaf'
Origin: a primitive root
me with gall
ro'sh (Hebrew #7219)
apparently the same as 7218; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
KJV usage: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: or rowsh (Deut. 32:32) {roshe}
and travail
tla'ah (Hebrew #8513)
distress
KJV usage: travail, travel, trouble.
Pronounce: tel-aw-aw'
Origin: from 3811
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Cross References

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builded.
Lam. 3:7‑9• 7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
 8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. (Lam. 3:7‑9)
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Job 19:8• 8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (Job 19:8)
gall.
Lam. 3:19• 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Lam. 3:19)
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Psa. 69:21• 21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. (Psa. 69:21)
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Jer. 8:14• 14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord. (Jer. 8:14)
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Jer. 9:15• 15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. (Jer. 9:15)
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Jer. 23:15• 15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil.