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your motherאִמְּכֶםis greatlyמְאֹדput to shame;בּוֹשָׁהshe who bore youיוֹלַדְתְּכֶםis abashed.חָפְרָהLook,הִנֵּהthe lastאַחֲרִיתof the nations:גּוֹיִםa wilderness,מִדְבָּרa dry land,צִיָּהand a steppe.וַעֲרָבָה
Jeremiah 50:12
Study it in the app“your mother is greatly put to shame; she who bore you is abashed. Look, the last of the nations: a wilderness, a dry land, and a steppe.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 50:12, word by word
- your motherאִמְּim
mother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “im” appears- is greatlyמְאֹדmeod
very
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appears- put to shameבּוֹשָׁהbosha
be disappointed
To be disgraced because what one trusted in failed.
Where else “bosha” appears- she who bore youיוֹלַדְתְּyoladt
bear
To bring a child into the world, giving birth after pregnancy.
Where else “yoladt” appears- is abashedחָפְרָהchafra
be ashamed, be disappointed
To blush, to be embarrassed or disappointed, to feel shame over something that went wrong.
Where else “chafra” appears- the lastאַחֲרִיתacharit
end
Where something ends, and how it ends.
Where else “acharit” appears- of the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim
Gentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears- a wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears- a dry landצִיָּהtsiya
drought, dry land
Dryness; dry land, desert.
Where else “tsiya” appears- and a steppeעֲרָבָהarava
plain
Flat, dry land, where there is almost no water.
Where else “arava” appears
The context
11Because you rejoice, because you exult, plunderers of my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing, and neigh like stallions,
12 · This verse (above)
13Because of the wrath of YHWH she will not be inhabited, but she will become a desolation, all of her; everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and will hiss over all her wounds.