King James Version

Lamentations 5:13

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

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בַּחוּרִים֙bachurimyoungבָּחוּרnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “young”, the ordinary formH970properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)(choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.טְח֣וֹןtechonto grindטְחוֹןnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “to grind”, the ordinary formH2911a hand mill; hence, a millstoneto grind.נָשָׂ֔אוּnasavlift upנָשָׂאverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “lift up”, a completed actionH5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeaccept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable…וּנְעָרִ֖יםunearimand boyנַעַרconjunction, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “and boy”, the ordinary formH5288(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).בָּעֵ֥ץbaetsin treeעֵץpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in tree”, the ordinary formH6086a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)[phrase] carpenter, gallows, helve, [phrase] pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.כָּשָֽׁלוּkashalvfallכָּשַׁלverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “fall”, a completed actionH3782to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fallbereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, [idiom] utterly, be weak.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.

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American Standard Version (1901)

The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Young’s Literal Translation

Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

World English Bible

The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

Darby Translation

The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

Douay-Rheims

They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον, καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν.