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Lamentations 5:10

“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

עוֹרʻôwr · ore
H5785 · Hebrew

Definition: skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
Derivation: from H5783 (עוּר);
KJV renderings: hide, leather, skin.
Grammar: עוֹרֵ֨ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
נוּ֙ — suffix (pronominal), 1st person, common, plural
Code HNcmsc/Sp1cp
Usage: Occurs 99 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:21 Genesis 27:16 Exodus 22:26 Exodus 25:5 Exodus 25:5

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 עוֹר here.

Verse 9 Verse 11

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.