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And the wordוַ דְבַרof YHWHיְהוָהcameיְהִיto me,אֵלַיsaying,לֵאמֹר
Jeremiah 24:4
Study it in the app“And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 24:4, word by word
- And the wordדְבַרdevar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- cameיְהִיyehi
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yehi” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears
The context
3And YHWH said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.”
4 · This verse (above)
5“Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good.