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Lamentations 5

Lam. 5:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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We have drunken
shathah (Hebrew #8354)
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X assuredly, banquet, X certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (X -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of 8248.)
Pronounce: shaw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
our water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
for money
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
; our wood
`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
κis sold
mchiyr (Hebrew #4242)
price, payment, wages
KJV usage: gain, hire, price, sold, worth.
Pronounce: mekk-eer'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to buy
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
unto us.
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cometh for price.

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gain, hire, price, sold, worth,
Money

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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have.
Deut. 28:48• 48thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. (Deut. 28:48)
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Isa. 3:1• 1For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, (Isa. 3:1)
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Ezek. 4:9‑17• 9And thou, take unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou liest upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
 10And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
 11And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
 12And thou shalt eat it as barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
 13And Jehovah said, So shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.
 14Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
 15And he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
 16And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
 17because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity. (Ezek. 4:9‑17)
is sold.
Heb. cometh for price.
• {v.4-5} The common possession of all, the freest uses of their land, belonged to hard masters. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.