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Alsoגַּםthe sonsבְּנֵיof Memphisנֹףand Tahpanhesוְתַחְפַּנְחֵסwill shaveיִרְעוּthe crown of your head.ךְ קָדְקֹד
Jeremiah 2:16
Study it in the app“Also the sons of Memphis and Tahpanhes will shave the crown of your head.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 2:16, word by word
- the sonsבְּנֵיbene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “bene” appears- of Memphisנֹףnof
Noph (Memphis)
Noph: Memphis, a great city of Egypt.
Where else “nof” appears- and Tahpanhesתַחְפַּנְחֵסtachpanches
Tahpanhes
Tahpanhes: a city of Egypt, near its eastern border, where the Judeans who fled with Jeremiah settled.
Where else “tachpanches” appears- will shaveיִרְעוּyiru
General meaning: Pasture; shepherd.
Where else “yiru” appears- the crown of your headקָדְקֹדkadkod
crown of the head
Crown of the head, the top of the head.
Where else “kadkod” appears
Translation note
The Hebrew verb can be read “will graze” or “will break”; the sense is humiliation.
The context
15Against him young lions roar, they have raised their voice, and they have made his land a horror; his cities are burned, without inhabitant.
16 · This verse (above)
17Has not this been done to you by your forsaking YHWH your Elohim at the time when he led you on the way?