Lamentations 2:10
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.”
יָרַד
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
עָפָר
dust
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עָפָר
Dust, dry earth. Aphar. The material from which God formed Adam. You are dust and to dust you shall return. But between the dust God breathed His own life into you.
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שַׂק
sackcloths
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שַׂק
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
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דָּמַם
they are silent
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דָּמַם
To rest, to be still, to be silent. Damam. Rest in the LORD and wait patiently. Being so still before God that you can hear what He is saying.
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עָלָה
they have caused to rise
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עָלָה
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
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יָשַׁב
they sit
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יָשַׁב
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
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רֹאשׁ
head/ their
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רֹאשׁ
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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בְּתוּלָה
the virgins of
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בְּתוּלָה
a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
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בַּת
the daughter of
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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צִיּוֹן
Zion
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צִיּוֹן
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם
Jerusalem
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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם
Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
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חָגַר
they have girded on
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חָגַר
to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
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זָקֵן
the elders of
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