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And Jeremiahוַ יִרְמְיָהוּsaidיֹּאמֶרto allאֶל כָּלthe people,הָעָםto the menעַל הַגְּבָרִיםand to the womenוְעַל הַנָּשִׁיםand to allוְעַל כָּלthe peopleהָעָםwho had answeredהָעֹנִיםhimאֹתוֹwith that word,דָּבָרsaying,לֵאמֹר
Jeremiah 44:20
Study it in the app“And Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women and to all the people who had answered him with that word, saying,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 44:20, word by word
- And Jeremiahיִרְמְיָהוּyirmyahu
Jeremiah
Jeremiah: a name meaning "YHWH raises up" or "YHWH exalts," borne by several men: best known is the prophet, son of Hilkiah, from Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1); in 2 Kings 23:31 and 24:18 another Jeremiah, of Libnah, grandfather of two kings.
Where else “yirmyahu” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- to the menגְּבָרִיםgevarim
man
Man, a grown man in his strength.
Where else “gevarim” appears- and to the womenנָּשִׁיםnashim
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “nashim” appears- who had answeredעֹנִיםonim
answer
To reply to what was said.
Where else “onim” appears- with that wordדָּבָרdavar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appears
The context
19“And when we burn incense to the queen of the heavens and pour out libations to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her cakes to make her image and poured out libations to her?”
20 · This verse (above)
21“The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not YHWH remember them, and did it come up on his heart?