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Lamentations 2:4
“He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1869 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
- Grammar
- דָּרַ֨ךְ — verb Qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 63 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 24:17Deuteronomy 1:36Deuteronomy 11:24Deuteronomy 11:25Deuteronomy 33:29
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read דָּרַךְ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.