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Lamentations 2:13
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 מָֽה מָה H4100 HTi מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
2 אֲעִידֵ֞/ךְ עוּד H5749 HVhi1cs/Sp2fs עוּד a primitive root; to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication): admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call (take) to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning, (bear, call to, give, take to) witness.
3 מָ֣ה מָה H4100 HTi מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
4 אֲדַמֶּה דָּמָה H1819 HVpi1cs דָּמָה a primitive root; to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
5 לָּ֗/ךְ HR/Sp2fs
6 הַ/בַּת֙ בַּת H1323 HTd/Ncfsa בַּת from בָּנָה (as feminine of בֵּן); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively): apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
7 יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם יְרוּשָׁלַ֫םִ H3389 HNp יְרוּשָׁלַ֫םִ rarely Yruwshalayim; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of יְרוּשְׁלֶם)); probably from (the passive participle of) יָרָה and שָׁלַם; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine: Jerusalem.
8 מָ֤ה מָה H4100 HTi מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
9 אַשְׁוֶה שָׁוָה H7737 HVhi1cs שָׁוָה a primitive root; properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.): avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-)like, make plain, profit, reckon.
10 לָּ/ךְ֙ HR/Sp2fs
11 וַ/אֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔/ךְ נָחַם H5162 HC/Vpi1cs/Sp2fs נָחַם a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
12 בְּתוּלַ֖ת בְּתוּלָה H1330 HNcfsc בְּתוּלָה feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to separate; a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state: maid, virgin.
13 בַּת בַּת H1323 HNcfsc בַּת from בָּנָה (as feminine of בֵּן); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively): apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
14 צִיּ֑וֹן צִיּוֹן H6726 HNp צִיּוֹן the same (regularly) as צִיּוּן; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem: Zion.
15 כִּֽי כִּי H3588 HC כִּי a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed: and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-)as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-)though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
16 גָד֥וֹל גָּדוֹל H1419 HAamsa גָּדוֹל or (shortened) gadol; from גָּדַל; great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent: + aloud, elder(-est), + exceeding(-ly), + far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, X sore, (X) very.
17 כַּ/יָּ֛ם יָם H3220 HRd/Ncmsa יָם from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
18 שִׁבְרֵ֖/ךְ שָׁ֫בֶר H7667 HNcmsc/Sp2fs שָׁ֫בֶר or sheber; from שָׁבַר; a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream): affliction, breach, breaking, broken(-footed, -handed), bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.
19 מִ֥י מִי H4310 HTi מִי an interrogative pronoun of persons, as מָה is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix: any (man), X he, X him, + O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), + would to God.
20 יִרְפָּא רָפָא H7495 HVqi3ms רָפָא or raphah; a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure: cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole. See רָפָה.
21 לָֽ/ךְ HR/Sp2fs