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Lamentations 4:19

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Masoretic Text 1524

H7031 swifter קלים

H1961 are היו

H7291 Our persecutors רדפינו

H5404 מנשׁרי

H8064 of the heaven שׁמים

H5921 us upon על

H2022 the mountains ההרים

H1814 they pursued דלקנו

H4057 for us in the wilderness במדבר

H693 they laid wait ארבו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Our

H7291 persecutors

H1961 are

H7031 swifter

than

the

H4480 eagles

the

H8064 heaven

they

H1814 pursued

H5921 upon

the

H2022 mountains

they

laid

H693 wait

for

the

H4057 wilderness

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H8064

Hebrew: שָׁמַיִם

Transliteration: shâmayim

Pronunciation: shaw-mah'-yim

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

Bible Usage: {air} X-(idiom) {astrologer} heaven (-s).

Definition:

from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)

1. heaven, heavens, sky

a. visible heavens, sky

1. as abode of the stars

2. as the visible universe, the sky, atmosphere, etc

b. Heaven (as the abode of God)

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906