Jeremiah 34:16

“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.”

Jeremiah 34:16 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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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.

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