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Forכִּיmy eyesעֵינַיare on allעַל כָּלtheir ways;דַּרְכֵיהֶםthey are notלֹאhiddenנִסְתְּרוּfrom before me,מִלְּפָנָיnorוְלֹאis their iniquityעֲוֺנָםconcealedנִצְפַּןfrom beforeמִנֶּגֶדmy eyes.עֵינָי
Jeremiah 16:17
Study it in the app“For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from before me, nor is their iniquity concealed from before my eyes.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 16:17, word by word
- my eyesעֵינַena
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ena” appears- their waysדַּרְכֵיdarche
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “darche” appears- hiddenנִסְתְּרוּnistru
hide
To put someone or something out of sight, to keep it safe or to flee.
Where else “nistru” appears- from before meפָנָfana
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fana” appears- is their iniquityעֲוֺנָavona
iniquity
A serious wrong.
Where else “avona” appears- concealedנִצְפַּןnitspan
hide
To put something away in secret, safe.
Where else “nitspan” appears- from beforeנֶּגֶדneged
in front of
In someone's presence, before his eyes.
Where else “neged” appears
The context
16Look, I am sending for many fishermen, declares YHWH, and they will fish them out; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from upon every mountain and from upon every hill, and from the clefts of the rocks.
17 · This verse (above)
18And I will repay first double their iniquity and their sin, because they have profaned my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and with their abominations they have filled my inheritance.”