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At thisעַל זֹאתI awokeהֱקִיצֹתִיand looked,וָאֶרְאֶהand my sleepוּשְׁנָתִיwas sweetעָרְבָהto me.לִּי
Jeremiah 31:26
Study it in the app“At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 31:26, word by word
- I awokeהֱקִיצֹתִיhekitsoti
awake
To awake, to wake up from sleep.
Where else “hekitsoti” appears- and lookedאֶרְאֶהere
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “ere” appears- and my sleepשְׁנָתִshenati
sleep
Sleep.
Where else “shenati” appears- was sweetעָרְבָהarva
be pleasing
To be pleasant or pleasing; to be sweet to someone. It is said of sleep, of an offering or of words that please.
Where else “arva” appears
Translation note
The speaker seems to be the prophet, who wakes after what he has seen in 31:1-25.
The context
25For I have drenched the weary soul, and every languishing soul I have filled.”
26 · This verse (above)
27“Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of human beings and the seed of livestock.