The Meaning of Lamentations 5:10 Explained

Lamentations 5:10

KJV: Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

YLT: Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

Darby: Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

ASV: Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Our skin  was black  like an oven  because  of the terrible  famine. 

What does Lamentations 5:10 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 5

1  A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God

What do the individual words in Lamentations 5:10 mean?

Our skin as an oven is hot because of the fever of famine
עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב

עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙  Our  skin 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common plural
Root: עֹור  
Sense: skin, hide.
כְּתַנּ֣וּר  as  an  oven 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, common singular
Root: תַּנּוּר  
Sense: furnace, oven, fire-pot, (portable) stove.
נִכְמָ֔רוּ  is  hot 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: כָּמַר  
Sense: to yearn, be kindled, be black (hot), grow warm and tender, be or grow hot, become hot, become emotionally agitated.
מִפְּנֵ֖י  because 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, common plural construct
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת  of  the  fever 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: זַלְעָפָה  
Sense: burning heat, raging heat.
רָעָֽב  of  famine 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: רָעָב  
Sense: famine, hunger.

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