Jeremiah 24:9

“And I will make them a dread, an evil, to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.”

Jeremiah 24:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Jeremiah 24:9, word by word

And I will make themנְתַתִּיnetati

make

To make someone something: "I have made you a father".

Where else “netati” appears
a dreadזַעֲוָהzaava

terror, trembling

Terror, a fright that makes one tremble; also a thing of horror.

Where else “zaava” appears
an evilרָעָהraa

evil

What is evil, the opposite of good.

Where else “raa” appears
the kingdomsמַמְלְכוֹתmamlchot

kingdom

A land ruled by a king.

Where else “mamlchot” appears
of the earthאָרֶץarets

earth

The whole world, everything under the sky.

Where else “arets” appears
a reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpa

disgrace, reproach

Disgrace, reproach, scorn from others. Being childless was then felt as a humiliation.

Where else “cherpa” appears
and a proverbמָשָׁלmashal

byword

An object of mockery among nations.

Where else “mashal” appears
a tauntשְׁנִינָהshenina

taunt, byword

A cutting taunt, a saying used to mock someone.

Where else “shenina” appears
and a curseקְלָלָהkelala

curse

Curse: words calling down evil on someone; the opposite of a blessing.

Where else “kelala” appears
the placesמְּקֹמוֹתmekomot

place

A place, a spot.

Where else “mekomot” appears
I will drive themאַדִּיחֵadiche

banish

To push a people far from their land.

Where else “adiche” appears

Translation note

Cf. Deuteronomy 28:37.

The context

8And like the figs that are bad, which cannot be eaten for badness —for thus says YHWH— so will I give up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.

9 · This verse (above)

10And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they are finished off from the ground that I gave to them and to their fathers.”

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