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But this peopleוְלָעָם הַזֶּהhasהָיָהa stubbornסוֹרֵרand rebelliousוּמוֹרֶהheart;לֵבthey have turned asideסָרוּand gone away.וַיֵּלֵכוּ
Jeremiah 5:23
Study it in the app“But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 5:23, word by word
- But this peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- hasהָיָהhaya
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “haya” appears- a stubbornסוֹרֵרsorer
be stubborn
Be stubborn: turn away from what one is told, refuse to be led.
Where else “sorer” appears- and rebelliousמוֹרֶהmore
rebel
Rebel, resist what is commanded.
Where else “more” appears- heartלֵבlev
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lev” appears- they have turned asideסָרוּsaru
turn aside
To leave the road, go away.
Where else “saru” appears- and gone awayיֵּלֵכוּyelechu
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelechu” appears
The context
22Do you not fear me? declares YHWH. Do you not tremble before me, who placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, an eternal decree, and it cannot pass beyond it? And they toss, but they cannot prevail; and its waves roar, but they cannot pass beyond it.
23 · This verse (above)
24And they have not said in their heart, “Let us fear now YHWH our Elohim, who gives rain, the early and the late, in its season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.”