And I brought youוָאָבִיא אֶתְכֶםinto a landאֶל אֶרֶץof orchardsהַכַּרְמֶלto eatלֶאֱכֹלits fruitפִּרְיָהּand its good things;וְטוּבָהּbut you came inוַתָּבֹאוּand defiledוַתְּטַמְּאוּmy land,אֶת אַרְצִיand my inheritanceוְנַחֲלָתִיyou madeשַׂמְתֶּםan abomination.לְתוֹעֵבָה
Jeremiah 2:7
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With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 2:7, word by word
- And I brought youאָבִיאavi
bring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “avi” appears- into a landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of orchardsכַּרְמֶלkarmel
orchard
A grove of trees bearing produce, rich soil.
Where else “karmel” appears- to eatאֱכֹלechol
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “echol” appears- its fruitפִּרְיָpirya
fruit
What a tree or the land produces, which is eaten.
Where else “pirya” appears- and its good thingsטוּבָtuva
good things
The best the land gives: its goods, wealth and plenty.
Where else “tuva” appears- and defiledתְּטַמְּאוּtetamu
defile
To make someone or something unclean.
Where else “tetamu” appears- and my inheritanceנַחֲלָתִnachalati
inheritance
Land or goods passed from parents to children.
Where else “nachalati” appears- you madeשַׂמְתֶּםsamtem
make
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “samtem” appears- an abominationתוֹעֵבָהtoeva
abomination
Abomination: something that a people or God rejects with disgust, above all idolatry and the practices God forbids; also a custom another people will not tolerate.
Where else “toeva” appears
The context
6And they did not say, ‘Where is YHWH, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of steppe and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land through which no man passed and where no human being lived?’
7 · This verse (above)
8The priests did not say, ‘Where is YHWH?’ And those who handle the instruction did not know me, and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after what does not profit.