Study it in the app“And it will be, if they really learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As YHWH lives,’ just as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people.”
And it will be,וְהָיָהifאִםthey reallyלָמֹדlearnיִלְמְדוּthe waysאֶת דַּרְכֵיof my people,עַמִּיto swearלְהִשָּׁבֵעַby my name,בִּשְׁמִי‘As YHWHיְהוָהlives,’חַיjust asכַּאֲשֶׁרthey taughtלִמְּדוּmy peopleאֶת עַמִּיto swearלְהִשָּׁבֵעַby Baal,בַּבָּעַלthen they will be built upוְנִבְנוּin the midstבְּתוֹךְof my people.עַמִּי
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “haya” appearslearn
To receive teaching until one knows or masters it.
Where else “lamod” appearsmanner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “darche” appearsAmmi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “ami” appearsswear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “hishavea” appearsname of YHWH
YHWH's name: himself, as he makes himself known.
Where else “shemi” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsas lives
The oath formula: "as YHWH lives", calling him to witness.
Where else “chay” appearsBaal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “baal” appearsbuild
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “nivnu” appearsmidst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “toch” appears15And it will be, after I have uprooted them, I will turn back and have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each to his inheritance and each to his land.
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17But if they do not listen, I will uproot that nation, uprooting and destroying it, declares YHWH.”
