mach.mud denotes valued possessions recalled in loss or surrendered to obtain food.

The attested plural construct forms refer to possessions regarded as valuable: they are remembered in Jerusalem's affliction in Lamentations 1:7 and given up for food in Lamentations 1:11.

1. Valued possessions in loss and need · dominant

   Both occurrences are common masculine plural construct nouns. In Lamentations 1:7 the APB renders Jerusalem's remembered possessions as "all her desirable things" amid affliction and the fall of her people; in Lamentations 1:11 it renders possessions given for food to restore life as "their desirable things."

   Lamentations 1:7Lamentations 1:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "desirable things" in both Lamentations 1:7 and Lamentations 1:11. This repeated wording confirms the verse-level presentation rather than fixing a separate English equivalent.