provoking me to angerלְהַכְעִסֵנִיwith the worksבְּמַעֲשֵׂיof your hands,יְדֵיכֶםburning incenseלְקַטֵּרto other godsלֵאלֹהִים אֲחֵרִיםin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Egypt,מִצְרַיִםwhereאֲשֶׁרyouאַתֶּםhave comeבָּאִיםto reside as aliensלָגוּרthere,שָׁםso that you cut yourselves offלְמַעַן הַכְרִית לָכֶםand so thatוּלְמַעַןyou becomeהֱיוֹתְכֶםa curseלִקְלָלָהand a reproachוּלְחֶרְפָּהamong allבְּכֹלthe nationsגּוֹיֵיof the earth?הָאָרֶץ
Jeremiah 44:8
Study it in the app“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?”
With the Hebrew beneath
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
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).
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?