Strong's Lexicon The hands יְדֵ֗י (yə·ḏê) Noun - fdc Strong's Hebrew 3027: 1) hand 1a) hand (of man) 1b) strength, power (fig.) 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.) 1d) (various special, technical senses) 1d1) sign, monument 1d2) part, fractional part, share 1d3) time, repetition 1d4) axle-trees, axle 1d5) stays, support (for laver) 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle) 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure) 1d8) wrists of compassionate רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת (ra·ḥă·mā·nî·yō·wṯ) Adjective - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 7362: 1) compassionate, compassionate women women נָשִׁים֙ (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 802: 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun) have cooked בִּשְּׁל֖וּ (biš·šə·lū) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 1310: 1) to boil, cook, bake, roast, ripen, grow ripe 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to boil, cook 1a2) to grow ripe, ripen 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to boil 1b2) to cook 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be boiled 1c2) to be sodden 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to ripen 1d2) ripen, brought to ripeness their own children, יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן (yal·ḏê·hen) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 3206: 1) child, son, boy, offspring, youth 1a) child, son, boy 1b) child, children 1c) descendants 1d) youth 1e) apostate Israelites (fig.) who became הָי֤וּ (hā·yū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone their food לְבָרוֹת֙ (lə·ḇā·rō·wṯ) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 1262: 1) to eat, consume 1a) (Qal) to eat 1b) (Piel) for eating, devouring 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to eat in the destruction בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר (bə·še·ḇer) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 7667: 1) breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash, ruin, shattering 1a) breaking, fracture, shattering, crushing 1b) crashing 1c) breaking (of a dream), interpretation 1d) quarries of the daughter בַּת־ (baṯ-) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 1323: n f 1) daughter 1a) daughter, girl, adopted daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, granddaughters, female child, cousin 1a1) as polite address n pr f 1a2) as designation of women of a particular place 2) young women, women 1a3) as personification 1a4) daughter-villages 1a5) description of character of my people. עַמִּֽי׃ (‘am·mî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 5971: 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men 2) kinsman, kindred Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleThe hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Young's Literal Translation The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people. Holman Christian Standard Bible The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people. New American Standard Bible The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. King James Bible The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Parallel Verses New International Version With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed. New Living Translation Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege. English Standard Version The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people. New American Standard Bible The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. King James Bible The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Holman Christian Standard Bible The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people. International Standard Version With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children— they become their food— when my beloved people were destroyed. NET Bible The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed. American Standard Version The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. English Revised Version The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Young's Literal Translation The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people. Cross References Leviticus 26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. Deuteronomy 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, Deuteronomy 28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 2 Kings 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. 2 Kings 25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. Lamentations 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. 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