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And there aroseוַיָּקֻמוּmenאֲנָשִׁיםfrom the eldersמִזִּקְנֵיof the land,הָאָרֶץand they saidוַיֹּאמְרוּto allאֶל כָּלthe assemblyקְהַלof the people,הָעָםsaying,לֵאמֹר
Jeremiah 26:17
Study it in the app“And there arose men from the elders of the land, and they said to all the assembly of the people, saying,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 26:17, word by word
- And there aroseיָּקֻמוּyakumu
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakumu” appears- menאֲנָשִׁיםanashim
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appears- from the eldersזִּקְנֵיzikne
elder
The senior men who led a city or the people.
Where else “zikne” appears- of the landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears- and they saidיֹּאמְרוּyomru
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appears- the assemblyקְהַלkehal
assembly
The people gathered before YHWH.
Where else “kehal” appears- of the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears
The context
16And the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “There is no sentence of death for this man, for in the name of YHWH our Elohim he has spoken to us.”
17 · This verse (above)
18“Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house high places of a forest.’