But you turned backוַתָּשֻׁבוּand profanedוַתְּחַלְּלוּmy name,אֶת שְׁמִיand brought back,וַתָּשִׁבוּeach one,אִישׁhis slaveאֶת עַבְדּוֹand each oneוְאִישׁhis slave woman,אֶת שִׁפְחָתוֹwhomאֲשֶׁרyou had let goשִׁלַּחְתֶּםfreeחָפְשִׁיםat their own will,לְנַפְשָׁםand you subjected themוַתִּכְבְּשׁוּ אֹתָםto beלִהְיוֹתyourלָכֶםslavesלַעֲבָדִיםand slave women.וְלִשְׁפָחוֹת
Jeremiah 34:16
Study it in the app“But you turned back and profaned my name, and brought back, each one, his slave and each one his slave woman, whom you had let go free at their own will, and you subjected them to be your slaves and slave women.”
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Jeremiah 34:16, word by word
- But you turned backתָּשֻׁבוּtashuvu
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “tashuvu” appears- and profanedתְּחַלְּלוּtechallu
profane
To treat what is holy as common.
Where else “techallu” appears- my nameשְׁמִshemi
name
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shemi” appears- each oneאִישׁish
each
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appears- his slaveעַבְדּavd
slave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avd” appears- his slave womanשִׁפְחָתshifchat
female slave, servant
Female slave, maidservant in the service of the lady of the house.
Where else “shifchat” appears- you had let goשִׁלַּחְתֶּםshilachtem
let go
To set free, release.
Where else “shilachtem” appears- freeחָפְשִׁיםchafshim
free
Free: no longer a slave; also free from duties.
Where else “chafshim” appears- at their own willנַפְשָׁnafsha
appetite
Hunger or craving; the throat.
Where else “nafsha” appears- and you subjected themתִּכְבְּשׁוּtichbshu
subjugate
To enslave others.
Where else “tichbshu” appears- to beהְיוֹתheot
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “heot” appears
The context
15And you had turned back today, and had done what is right in my eyes, proclaiming liberty, each one to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before me in the house over which my name is called.
16 · This verse (above)
17Therefore thus says YHWH: You have not listened to me to proclaim liberty, each one to his brother and each one to his neighbor; look, I am proclaiming to you liberty, declares YHWH, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.