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So I wentוָאֵלֵךְand hid itוָאֶטְמְנֵהוּby the Euphrates,בִּפְרָתasכַּאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהhad commanded me.צִוָּה אוֹתִי
Jeremiah 13:5
Study it in the app“So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as YHWH had commanded me.”
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Jeremiah 13:5, word by word
- So I wentאֵלֵךְelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “elech” appears- and hid itאֶטְמְנֵetmne
hide, bury
Hide by burying in the ground.
Where else “etmne” appears- by the Euphratesפְרָתferat
Euphrates
See it on the mapWhere else “ferat” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
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” appears- had commanded meצִוָּהtsiva
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appears
Places in this verse
Euphrates
Today: Euphrates River: Turkey, Syria, Iraq
The longest river in southwest Asia; it rises in Turkey and flows through Syria and Iraq to the Persian Gulf.
It is one of the four rivers of Eden (Gen 2:14). God promised Abram the land as far as this river (Gen 15:18).
The context
4“Take the belt that you bought, which is on your loins, and get up, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.”
5 · This verse (above)
6And it happened at the end of many days that YHWH said to me: “Get up, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the belt that I commanded you to hide there.”