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Lamentations 4:2
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

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The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

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# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 בְּנֵ֤י בֵּן H1121 HNcmpc בֵּן from בָּנָה; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like אָב, אָח, etc.)): + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
2 צִיּוֹן֙ צִיּוֹן H6726 HNp צִיּוֹן the same (regularly) as צִיּוּן; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem: Zion.
3 הַ/יְקָרִ֔ים יָקָר H3368 HTd/Aampa יָקָר from יָקַר; valuable (obj. or subj.): -brightness, clear, costly, excellent, fat, honourable women, precious, reputation.
4 הַ/מְסֻלָּאִ֖ים סָלָא H5537 HTd/VPsmpa סָלָא a primitive root; to suspend in a balance, i.e. weigh: compare.
5 בַּ/פָּ֑ז פָּז H6337 HRd/Ncmsa פָּז from פָּזַז; pure (gold); hence, gold itself (as refined): fine (pure) gold.
6 אֵיכָ֤ה NONE H349 HTi NONE also eykah; and teykakah; prolonged from אַי; how? or how!; also where: how, what.
7 נֶחְשְׁבוּ֙ חָשַׁב H2803 HVNp3cp חָשַׁב a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
8 לְ/נִבְלֵי נֵ֫בֶל H5035 HR/Ncmpc נֵ֫בֶל or nebel; from נָבֵל; a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.
9 חֶ֔רֶשׂ חָ֫רֶשׂ H2789 HNcmsa חָ֫רֶשׂ a collateral form mediating between חָ֫רֶס and חֶ֫רֶשׁ; a piece of pottery: earth(-en), (pot-)sherd, + stone.
10 מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה מַעֲשֶׂה H4639 HNcmsc מַעֲשֶׂה from עָשָׂה; an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
11 יְדֵ֥י יָד H3027 HNcbdc יָד a primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from כָּף, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows): (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
12 יוֹצֵֽר יָצַר H3335 HNcmsa יָצַר probably identical with יָצַר (through the squeezing into shape); ((compare יָצַע)); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution): X earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.