Have you forgottenהַשְׁכַחְתֶּםthe evilsאֶת רָעוֹתof your fathersאֲבוֹתֵיכֶםand the evilsוְאֶת רָעוֹתof the kingsמַלְכֵיof Judahיְהוּדָהand the evilsוְאֵת רָעוֹתof his wives,נָשָׁיוand your evilsוְאֵת רָעֹתֵכֶםand the evilsוְאֵת רָעֹתof your wives,נְשֵׁיכֶםthatאֲשֶׁרthey didעָשׂוּin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Judahיְהוּדָהand in the streetsוּבְחֻצוֹתof Jerusalem?יְרוּשָׁלִָם
Jeremiah 44:9
Study it in the app“Have 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?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 44:9, word by word
- Have you forgottenשְׁכַחְתֶּםshechachtem
forget
Forget.
Where else “shechachtem” appears- the evilsרָעוֹתraot
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raot” appears- of your fathersאֲבוֹתֵיavote
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appears- of the kingsמַלְכֵיmalche
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “malche” appears- of Judahיְהוּדָהyehuda
Judah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appears- of his wivesנָשָׁיnashay
wife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “nashay” appears- they didעָשׂוּasu
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asu” appears- in the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- and in the streetsחֻצוֹתchutsot
street
The ways and squares between the houses, where people go about.
Where else “chutsot” appears- of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִָםyerushalaim
Jerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “yerushalaim” appears
Places in this verse
Jerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
The context
8provoking 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?
9 · This verse (above)
10They have not humbled themselves to this day, and they have not feared, and they have not walked in my instruction and in my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.