Jeremiah 44:8

“provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to reside as aliens there, so that you cut yourselves off and so that you become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?”

Jeremiah 44:8 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Jeremiah 44:8, word by word

provoking me to angerהַכְעִסֵhachise

provoke

To stir up someone's anger by what one does, like worshiping idols before YHWH.

Where else “hachise” appears
with the worksמַעֲשֵׂיmaase

work

What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.

Where else “maase” appears
of your handsיְדֵיyede

hand

The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.

Where else “yede” appears
burning incenseקַטֵּרkater

burn incense

To offer fragrant smoke to YHWH or other gods.

Where else “kater” appears
to other godsאלֹהִיםlohim

gods

The gods of other peoples.

Where else “lohim” appears
to other godsאֲחֵרִיםacherim

other

Other, another; next.

Where else “acherim” appears
in the landאֶרֶץerets

land

A region or nation, above all Israel's.

Where else “erets” appears
of Egyptמִצְרַיִםmitsrayim

Egypt, Mizraim

See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears
have comeבָּאִיםbaim

come

To come, arrive: "days are coming".

Where else “baim” appears
to reside as aliensגוּרgur

sojourn

To live in a place that is not your own.

Where else “gur” appears
so that you cut yourselves offהַכְרִיתhachrit

cut off

To wipe out, or be shut out from the people.

Where else “hachrit” appears
you becomeהֱיוֹתְheot

become

To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.

Where else “heot” appears
a curseקְלָלָהkelala

curse

Curse: words calling down evil on someone; the opposite of a blessing.

Where else “kelala” appears
and a reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpa

disgrace, reproach

Disgrace, reproach, scorn from others. Being childless was then felt as a humiliation.

Where else “cherpa” appears
the nationsגּוֹיֵיgoye

Gentiles

The peoples other than Israel.

Where else “goye” appears

Places in this verse

JerusalemEgypt
Approximate location. A “?” means it is not known for sure where it was.
  • Egypt

    Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)

    A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.

    Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).

    Genesis 12:10Genesis 37:28Exodus 12:41Matthew 2:14

The context

7And now, thus says YHWH Elohim Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Why are you doing great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and nursing child, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave you a remnant,

8 · This verse (above)

9Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers and the evils of the kings of Judah and the evils of his wives, and your evils and the evils of your wives, that they did in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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