Lamentations 5:3

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

• יְתוֹמִ֤יםfatherless ones

  yetomimH3490 →

• הָיִ֙ינוּ֙we have become

  hayinuH1961 →3559 times

• וְאֵ֣יןand there not

  veeinH369 →789 times

• אָ֔ב[is] a father

  ʾavH1 →

• אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּmothers our

  ʾimoteinuH517 →220 times

• כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃[are] like widows

  kealmanotH490 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

• Through

  Hosea 14:3

  Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

  it leads to

  • Psalms 10:14

    But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Psalms 68:5

    A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

  • Isaiah 31:1

    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…

  • John 14:18

    I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

  • Hosea 5:13

    When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

• Through

  Exodus 22:24

  My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

  it leads to

  • Jeremiah 15:8

    I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and…

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Psalms 109:9

    May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

• Through

  Jeremiah 18:21

  Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck…

  it leads to

  • Psalms 109:9–20

    May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

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