and youוְאַתֶּםhave done worseהֲרֵעֹתֶם לַעֲשׂוֹתthan your fathers;מֵאֲבוֹתֵיכֶםand look,וְהִנְּyouכֶםare walking,הֹלְכִיםeach oneאִישׁafterאַחֲרֵיthe stubbornnessשְׁרִרוּתof his evilהָרָעheart,לִבּוֹso as notלְבִלְתִּיto listen to me.שְׁמֹעַ אֵלָי
Jeremiah 16:12
Study it in the app“and you have done worse than your fathers; and look, you are walking, each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so as not to listen to me.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 16:12, word by word
- have done worseהֲרֵעֹתֶםhareotem
do evil
To harm someone; evildoers.
Where else “hareotem” appears- have done worseעֲשׂוֹתasot
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appears- than your fathersאֲבוֹתֵיavote
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appears- are walkingהֹלְכִיםholchim
walk
Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.
Where else “holchim” appears- each oneאִישׁish
each
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appears- the stubbornnessשְׁרִרוּתsherirut
stubbornness
Stubbornness: the hardness of one who follows only his own opinion.
Where else “sherirut” appears- of his evilרָעra
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “ra” appears- heartלִבּlib
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lib” appears- to listen to meשְׁמֹעַshemoa
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “shemoa” appears
The context
11then you will say to them: ‘Because your fathers abandoned me, declares YHWH, and walked after other gods, and served them and bowed down to them, and me they abandoned, and my instruction they did not keep;
12 · This verse (above)
13So I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not give you clemency.’