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Keepמִנְעִיyour footרַגְלֵךְfromמִgoing barefootיָּחֵףand your throatוּגְרוֹנֵךְfrom thirst.מִצִּמְאָהBut you said,וַתֹּאמְרִי‘It is hopeless!נוֹאָשׁNo,לוֹאforכִּיI loveאָהַבְתִּיstrangers,זָרִיםand after themוְאַחֲרֵיהֶםI will go.’אֵלֵךְ
Jeremiah 2:25
Study it in the app“Keep your foot from going barefoot and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! No, for I love strangers, and after them I will go.’”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 2:25, word by word
- Keepמִנְעִיmini
withhold
Withhold, refuse, hold back.
Where else “mini” appears- your footרַגְלֵragle
foot
The part of the body that supports and makes one walk.
Where else “ragle” appears- going barefootיָּחֵףyachef
barefoot
Barefoot; going barefoot was a sign of mourning or humiliation.
Where else “yachef” appears- and your throatגְרוֹנֵgerone
throat
Throat: the part of the neck through which the voice passes and what is swallowed.
Where else “gerone” appears- from thirstצִּמְאָהtsima
thirst
Thirst.
Where else “tsima” appears- But you saidתֹּאמְרִיtomri
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomri” appears- ‘It is hopelessנוֹאָשׁnoash
despair
To give up, to despair, to lose hope of attaining something.
Where else “noash” appears- I loveאָהַבְתִּיahavti
love
To care for someone from the heart and seek their good.
Where else “ahavti” appears- strangersזָרִיםzarim
stranger
An outsider, not part of the group.
Where else “zarim” appears- I will go.’אֵלֵךְelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “elech” appears
The context
24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in the craving of her soul sniffing the wind; her heat, who can turn it back? All who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.
25 · This verse (above)
26As the shame of a thief when he is found, so the house of Israel is put to shame, they, their kings, their princes, and their priests and their prophets,