'Dear' in the Bible

כ KafMy eyes are worn out from weeping;I am churning within.My heart is poured out in griefbecause of the destruction of my dear people,because children and infants faintin the streets of the city.

My eyes flow with streams of tearsbecause of the destruction of my dear people.

ג GimelEven jackals offer their breaststo nurse their young,but my dear people have become cruellike ostriches in the wilderness.

ו VavThe punishment of my dear peopleis greater than that of Sodom,which was overthrown in an instantwithout a hand laid on it.

י YodThe hands of compassionate womenhave cooked their own children;they became their foodduring the destruction of my dear people.