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Lamentations 4

Lam. 4:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The tongue
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
of the sucking child
yanaq (Hebrew #3243)
to suck; causatively, to give milk
KJV usage: milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
Pronounce: yaw-nak'
Origin: a primitive root
cleaveth
dabaq (Hebrew #1692)
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Pronounce: daw-bak'
Origin: a primitive root
to the roof of his mouth
chek (Hebrew #2441)
properly, the palate or inside of the mouth; hence, the mouth itself (as the organ of speech, taste and kissing)
KJV usage: (roof of the) mouth, taste.
Pronounce: khake
Origin: probably from 2596 in the sense of tasting
for thirst
tsama' (Hebrew #6772)
thirst (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: thirst(-y).
Pronounce: tsaw-maw'
Origin: from 6770
: the young children
`owlel (Hebrew #5768)
from 5763; a suckling
KJV usage: babe, (young) child, infant, little one.
Pronounce: o-lale'
Origin: or lolal {o-lawl'}
ask
sha'al (Hebrew #7592)
a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
KJV usage: ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
Pronounce: shaw-al'
Origin: or shael {shaw-ale'}
bread
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
, and nor man breaketh
paras (Hebrew #6566)
to break apart, disperse, etc.
KJV usage: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
Pronounce: paw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
it unto them.
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Deut. 32:24• 24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. (Deut. 32:24)

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Cross References

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Psa. 22:15• 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. (Psa. 22:15)
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Psa. 137:6• 6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psa. 137:6)
the young.
Lam. 1:11• 11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile. (Lam. 1:11)
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Lam. 2:11‑12• 11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
 12They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. (Lam. 2:11‑12)
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Deut. 32:24• 24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. (Deut. 32:24)
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Matt. 7:9‑11• 9Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
 10Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
 11If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matt. 7:9‑11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.

W. Kelly Translation

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The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate for thirst;{HR}Infants ask bread—none breaketh [it] for them.