Lamentationschapter 2
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Lamentations 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
The Lord Become as an Enemy to Zion1
Lamentations 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Lamentations 2:1
How can it be that…cast a gloom. Bring darkness, 1 Alternatively, ‘has raised up to the clouds.’ (Ibn Ezra) as Scripture states, “the heavens had become darkened with clouds.” 2 I Melochim:45.
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Lamentations 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Lamentations 2:10
They sit on the ground, etc. According to its apparent meaning. But the Midrash Aggadah [states] that Nevuchadnetzar sat them on the ground when Tzidkiyahu rebelled against him and transgressed his oath. He came and stationed himself in Dophnei. Nevuchadnetzar’s headquarters was situated in Rivlah as indicated in Yirmiyahu:5.
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Children Fainting in the Streets; the Prophets Saw Vain Things11
Lamentations 2:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Lamentations 2:11
Shriveled. Regrezilerent [shriveled up] in O.F. Intestines— when a person casts them into a fire— shrivel up and burn.
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Lamentations 2:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Lamentations 2:13
What testimony can I offer you, to what can I compare you. To say to you, “Why do you wonder about your destruction?
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Lamentations 2:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Lamentations 2:14
Falsehood and stupidity. Words that have no taste, in O.F. aplastrement.
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Lamentations 2:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Lamentations 2:15
They hiss. To blow with the mouth, [i.e., to whistle], sibler in O.F. It is customary for a person to do so upon seeing an important thing that was ruined and destroyed.
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Lamentations 2:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Pour Out Thy Heart Like Water Before the Lord18
Lamentations 2:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Lamentations 2:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
