King James Version

Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

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יְתוֹמִ֤יםyetomimfatherlessיָתוֹםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “fatherless”, the ordinary formH3490a bereaved personfatherless (child), orphan.הָיִ֨ינוּ֙hayinvbeהָיָהverb, qal, perfect, 1st person, common, plural — “be”, a completed actionH1961to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.איןynelseאַיִןparticle, negative — “else”H369a non-entity; generally used as a negative particleelse, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare H370 (אַיִן).וְאֵ֣יןveeynand elseאַיִןconjunction, particle, negative — “and else”H369a non-entity; generally used as a negative particleelse, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare H370 (אַיִן).אָ֔בavfatherאָבnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “father”, the ordinary formH1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationchief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּimoteynvmotherאֵםnoun, common, feminine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “mother”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))dam, mother, [idiom] parting.כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹתkealmanotas desolate houseאַלְמָנָהpreposition, noun, common, feminine, plural, absolute — “as desolate house”, the ordinary formH490a widow; also a desolate placedesolate house (palace), widow.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

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American Standard Version (1901)

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Young’s Literal Translation

Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.

World English Bible

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

Darby Translation

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Douay-Rheims

We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν, οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατὴρ, μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι.