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Forכִּיtheyהֵםare prophesyingנִבְּאִיםfalsehoodשֶׁקֶרto you,לָכֶםso as toלְמַעַןremoveהַרְחִיקyouאֶתְכֶםfar fromמֵעַלyour land,אַדְמַתְכֶםand so that I will driveוְהִדַּחְתִּיyou out,אֶתְכֶםand you will perish.וַאֲבַדְתֶּם
Jeremiah 27:10
Study it in the app“For they are prophesying falsehood to you, so as to remove you far from your land, and so that I will drive you out, and you will perish.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 27:10, word by word
- are prophesyingנִבְּאִיםnibim
prophesy
To speak what God's spirit gives to say.
Where else “nibim” appears- falsehoodשֶׁקֶרsheker
lie
What is said against the truth in order to deceive, even before a judge.
Where else “sheker” appears- removeהַרְחִיקharchik
remove
To put something far away, remove it from oneself or from another.
Where else “harchik” appears- your landאַדְמַתְadmat
land
A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
Where else “admat” appears- and so that I will driveהִדַּחְתִּיhidachti
banish
To push a people far from their land.
Where else “hidachti” appears- and you will perishאֲבַדְתֶּםavadtem
perish
To die, be ruined.
Where else “avadtem” appears
The context
9And you, do not listen to your prophets, or to your diviners, or to your dreams, or to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who are saying to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
10 · This verse (above)
11But the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will leave it on its own ground, declares YHWH, and it will till it and dwell in it.’”