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Even ifכִּי אִםyou wash yourselfתְּכַבְּסִיwith sodaבַּנֶּתֶרand use muchוְתַרְבִּי לָךְlye,בֹּרִיתyour iniquityעֲוֺנֵךְis stainedנִכְתָּםbefore me,לְפָנַיdeclaresנְאֻםAdonaiאֲדֹנָיYHWH.יְהוִה
Jeremiah 2:22
Study it in the app“Even if you wash yourself with soda and use much lye, your iniquity is stained before me, declares Adonai YHWH.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 2:22, word by word
- you wash yourselfתְּכַבְּסִיtechabsi
wash
To wash clothes; or wash from sin.
Where else “techabsi” appears- with sodaנֶּתֶרneter
soda, lye
Soda, natron: a mineral salt used for washing.
Where else “neter” appears- and use muchתַרְבִּיtarbi
greatly
Used to say 'in great quantity' or 'very much'.
Where else “tarbi” appears- lyeבֹּרִיתborit
soap
Lye, soap made from the ashes of plants.
Where else “borit” appears- your iniquityעֲוֺנֵavone
iniquity
A serious wrong.
Where else “avone” appears- is stainedנִכְתָּםnichtam
be stained
To be stained, to leave a mark that cannot be removed.
Where else “nichtam” appears- before meפָנַfana
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fana” appears- declaresנְאֻםneum
declaration
Solemn words God himself speaks: "oracle of YHWH".
Where else “neum” appears- Adonaiאֲדֹנָadona
Adonai, Lord
"Adonai": "my Lord", said only to God. It is a title of respect that acknowledges his authority. It is not another god besides YHWH: often it goes with his name, "Adonai YHWH", Lord YHWH.
Where else “adona” appears- YHWHיְהוִהyehvi
YHWH (with Adonai)
The four letters of God's name, YHWH (see "YHWH"). They almost always go with "Adonai"; then Jews, when reading, said "Elohim" so as not to repeat "Adonai".
Where else “yehvi” appears
The context
21And I planted you a choice vine, all of it true seed; and how have you turned for me into degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?
22 · This verse (above)
23How can you say, ‘I have not defiled myself; after the Baals I have not gone’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done, a young camel, swift, entangling her ways,