See אלי in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "אֱלִי",
"tr": "elí"
},
"expansion": "אֱלִי • (elí)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
6
]
],
"english": "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.",
"ref": "Tanach, Joel [[s:he:T1401#א_ח|1:8]], with translation of the King James Version:",
"roman": "elí kivtulá chagurat-sák al-báal n'uréha",
"text": "אֱלִי כִּבְתוּלָה חֲגֻרַת־שַׂק עַל־בַּעַל נְעוּרֶיהָ",
"translation": "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Wail: feminine singular imperative."
],
"links": [
[
"Wail",
"wail"
]
]
}
],
"word": "אלי"
}
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