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Lamentations 4

Lam. 4:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Their visage
to'ar (Hebrew #8389)
outline, i.e. figure or appearance
KJV usage: + beautiful, X comely, countenance, + fair, X favoured, form, X goodly, X resemble, visage.
Pronounce: to'-ar
Origin: from 8388
is μblacker
chashak (Hebrew #2821)
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
KJV usage: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
Pronounce: khaw-shak'
Origin: a primitive root
w than a coal
shchowr (Hebrew #7815)
dinginess, i.e. perhaps soot
KJV usage: coal.
Pronounce: shekh-ore'
Origin: from 7835
; they are not known
nakar (Hebrew #5234)
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
KJV usage: acknowledge, X could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).
Pronounce: naw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
in the streets
chuwts (Hebrew #2351)
(both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors
KJV usage: abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
Pronounce: khoots
Origin: or (shortened) chuts {khoots}
: their skin
`owr (Hebrew #5785)
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
KJV usage: hide, leather, skin.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 5783
y cleaveth
tsaphad (Hebrew #6821)
to adhere
KJV usage: cleave.
Pronounce: tsaw-fad'
Origin: a primitive root
to their bones
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
; it is withered
yabesh (Hebrew #3001)
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).
Pronounce: yaw-bashe'
Origin: a primitive root
, it is become like a stick
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
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Lam. 5:10• 10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. (Lam. 5:10)
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darker than blackness.
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Psa. 102:5• 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. (Psa. 102:5)

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Cross References

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visage.
Lam. 5:10• 10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. (Lam. 5:10)
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Job 30:17‑19,30• 17The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
 18By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
 19He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
 30My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat. (Job 30:17‑19,30)
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Joel 2:6• 6Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale. (Joel 2:6)
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Nah. 2:10• 10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale. (Nah. 2:10)
blacker than a coal.
Heb. darker than blackness.Or, as Dr.
Blayney renders, "duskier than the dawn;" {shachar} signifying "the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."they.
Lam. 4:1‑2• 1How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!
 2The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! (Lam. 4:1‑2)
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Ruth 1:19‑20• 19And they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they came to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is this Naomi?
 20And she said to them, Call me not Naomi--call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. (Ruth 1:19‑20)
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Job 2:12• 12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept. And they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heavens. (Job 2:12)
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Isa. 52:14• 14As many were astonished at thee--his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the children of men (Isa. 52:14)
their skin.
Job 19:20• 20My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. (Job 19:20)
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Job 33:21• 21His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out; (Job 33:21)
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Psa. 32:4• 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:4)
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Psa. 38:3• 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin. (Psa. 38:3)
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Psa. 102:3‑5,11• 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 4My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.
 11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass. (Psa. 102:3‑5,11)
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Psa. 119:83• 83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; I do not forget thy statutes. (Psa. 119:83)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick.