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Our inheritanceנַחֲלָתֵנוּhas been turned overנֶהֶפְכָהto strangers,לְזָרִיםour housesבָּתֵּינוּto foreigners.לְנָכְרִים
Lamentations 5:2
Study it in the app“Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Lamentations 5:2, word by word
- Our inheritanceנַחֲלָתֵnachalate
inheritance
Land or goods passed from parents to children.
Where else “nachalate” appears- has been turned overנֶהֶפְכָהnehefcha
turn
To turn one's body or course the other way.
Where else “nehefcha” appears- to strangersזָרִיםzarim
stranger
An outsider, not part of the group.
Where else “zarim” appears- our housesבָּתֵּיbate
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bate” appears- to foreignersנָכְרִיםnachrim
foreign, stranger
Foreign, strange; a foreigner, someone outside the family.
Where else “nachrim” appears
The context
1Remember, YHWH, what has happened to us; look and see our reproach.
2 · This verse (above)
3Orphans we have become, without a father; our mothers are like widows.