And they came inוַיָּבֹאוּand possessed it,וַיִּרְשׁוּ אֹתָהּbut they did notוְלֹאlistenשָׁמְעוּto your voice,בְקוֹלֶךָnorוּ לֹאwalkהָלָכוּin your instruction;בְתוֹרָתְךָallאֵת כָּלthatאֲשֶׁרyou commandedצִוִּיתָהthemלָהֶםto doלַעֲשׂוֹתthey did notלֹאdo;עָשׂוּand you have madeוַתַּקְרֵאallאֵת כָּלthis evilהָרָעָה הַזֹּאתcome uponתַּקְרֵאthem.אֹתָם
Jeremiah 32:23
Study it in the app“And they came in and possessed it, but they did not listen to your voice, nor walk in your instruction; all that you commanded them to do they did not do; and you have made all this evil come upon them.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 32:23, word by word
- And they came inיָּבֹאוּyavou
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “yavou” appears- and possessed itיִּרְשׁוּyirshu
possess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “yirshu” appears- listenשָׁמְעוּshamu
obey
To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.
Where else “shamu” appears- to your voiceקוֹלֶkole
voice
What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.
Where else “kole” appears- walkהָלָכוּhalachu
walk
Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.
Where else “halachu” appears- in your instructionתוֹרָתְtorat
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “torat” appears- you commandedצִוִּיתָהtsivita
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsivita” appears- to doעֲשׂוֹתasot
carry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “asot” appears- and you have madeתַּקְרֵאtakre
befall
For an event, good or bad, to befall someone without his seeking it.
Where else “takre” appears- this evilרָעָהraa
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appears
The context
22and you gave them this land that you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
23 · This verse (above)
24Look, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened, and look, you see it.