Lamentations
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Lamentations 1:1
אֵיכָ֣ה יָשְׁבָ֣ה בָדָ֗ד הָעִיר֙ רַבָּ֣תִי עָ֔ם הָיְתָ֖ה כְּאַלְמָנָ֑ה רַּבָּ֣תִי בַגּוֹיִ֗ם שָׂרָ֨תִי֙ בַּמְּדִינ֔וֹת הָיְתָ֖ה לָמַֽס
how · to dwell · isolation · the city · many of · people · to be · like/as widow · many of · in/at the nations · princess of · in/at the provinces · to be · to/for forced labor
Chapters
Words Lamentations uses most
Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Lamentations — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.
- כֹּל H3605 kôl all 37
- יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 32
- בַּת H1323 bath daughter 23
- הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 23
- יוֹם H3117 yôwm day 19
- רָאָה H7200 râʼâh to see 16
- יָד H3027 yâd hand 15
- אָיַב H341 ʼôyêb enemy 15
- צִיּוֹן H6726 Tsîyôwn Zion 15
- שׁוּב H7725 shûwb to return 15
- אֲדֹנָי H136 ʼĂdônây lord 14
- נֶ֫פֶשׁ H5315 nephesh soul 12
About this book
- 5 Chapters
- 154 Verses
- 1,564 Hebrew words
- 582 Distinct lemmas
Lamentations is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 5 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.
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