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“Get upקוּםand go downוְיָרַדְתָּto the houseבֵּיתof the potter,הַיּוֹצֵרand thereוְשָׁמָּהI will make you hearאַשְׁמִיעֲךָmy words.”אֶת דְּבָרָי
Jeremiah 18:2
Study it in the app““Get up and go down to the house of the potter, and there I will make you hear my words.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 18:2, word by word
- “Get upקוּםkum
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kum” appears- and go downיָרַדְתָּyaradta
go down
To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.
Where else “yaradta” appears- to the houseבֵּיתbet
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appears- of the potterיּוֹצֵרyotser
potter
The one who works clay and shapes it into pots with his hands.
Where else “yotser” appears- I will make you hearאַשְׁמִיעֲashmia
proclaim
Literally "make hear": to make known to all.
Where else “ashmia” appears- my wordsדְּבָרָdevara
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devara” appears
Translation note
“Potter” (יוֹצֵר) is the same word as “Former,” said of YHWH (10:16; Isaiah 64:8).
The context
1The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying:
2 · This verse (above)
3So I went down to the house of the potter, and look, he was doing a work on the wheel.