Lamentations 4:10
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The 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.

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.

Hebrew
The hands
יְדֵ֗י (yə·ḏê)
Noun - fdc
Strong's 3027: A hand

of compassionate
רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת (ra·ḥă·mā·nî·yō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7362: Compassionate

women
נָשִׁים֙ (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

have cooked
בִּשְּׁל֖וּ (biš·šə·lū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1310: To boil up, cooking, to ripen

their own children,
יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן (yal·ḏê·hen)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

who became
הָי֤וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

their food
לְבָרוֹת֙ (lə·ḇā·rō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1262: To select, to feed, to render clear

in the destruction
בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר (bə·še·ḇer)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash

of the daughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of my people.
עַמִּֽי׃ (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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