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“The wordהַדָּבָרthatאֲשֶׁרyou have spokenדִּבַּרְתָּto usאֵלֵינוּin the nameבְּשֵׁםof YHWH,יְהוָהwe are notאֵינֶנּוּlisteningשֹׁמְעִיםto you.אֵלֶיךָ
Jeremiah 44:16
Study it in the app““The word that you have spoken to us in the name of YHWH, we are not listening to you.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 44:16, word by word
- “The wordדָּבָרdavar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appears- you have spokenדִּבַּרְתָּdibarta
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “dibarta” appears- in the nameשֵׁםshem
name of YHWH
YHWH's name: himself, as he makes himself known.
Where else “shem” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- listeningשֹׁמְעִיםshomim
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “shomim” appears
The context
15Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, and all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16 · This verse (above)
17But we will certainly do every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens and to pour out libations to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and we were well off, and evil we did not see.