The Meaning of Lamentations 5:11 Explained

Lamentations 5:11

KJV: They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

YLT: Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.

Darby: They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

ASV: They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

They ravished  the women  in Zion,  [and] the maids  in the cities  of Judah. 

What does Lamentations 5:11 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 5

1  A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God

What do the individual words in Lamentations 5:11 mean?

The women in Zion they ravished the maidens in the cities of Judah
נָשִׁים֙ בְּצִיּ֣וֹן עִנּ֔וּ בְּתֻלֹ֖ת בְּעָרֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה

נָשִׁים֙  The  women 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
בְּצִיּ֣וֹן  in  Zion 
Parse: Preposition-b, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: צִיּׄון  
Sense: another name for Jerusalem especially in the prophetic books.
עִנּ֔וּ  they  ravished 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: עָנָה 
Sense: (Qal) to be occupied, be busied with.
בְּתֻלֹ֖ת  the  maidens 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: בְּתוּלָה  
Sense: virgin.
בְּעָרֵ֥י  in  the  cities 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
יְהוּדָֽה  of  Judah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יְהוּדָה  
Sense: the son of Jacob by Leah.

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