Book of Lamentations
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- proper noun
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Libro de Lamentaciones
- On this day, he heard the Jews recite the Book of Lamentations on the Temple Mount and saw them tear their clothes as a sign of mourning.
Examples
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On this day, he heard the Jews recite the Book of Lamentations on the Temple Mount and saw them tear their clothes as a sign of mourning.
Academic text (2013) -
Perhaps she has heard these words from the Book of Lamentations.
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But the ultimate biblical 'sad songs' are those collected in the Book of Lamentations.
Synonyms
A book of the Old Testament about deep sorrow for Jerusalem after it was destroyed
Surface Forms
Morphology
book + of + Lamentations
This is a compositional proper-name: 'book' + 'of' + 'Lamentations' straightforwardly denotes a book containing lamentations (expressions of sorrow). The structure matches cross-linguistic patterns for titling biblical books, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Book of Lamentations is a short book in the Old Testament made of sad poems called lamentations that 'mourn' the destruction of Jerusalem. One popular belief says a prophet named Jeremiah wrote them after the city fell, so the book is used to remember and feel that loss today.