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ThusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaot,צְבָאוֹתthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof Israel:יִשְׂרָאֵלAddסְפוּyour burnt offeringsעֹלוֹתֵיכֶםto your sacrifices,עַל זִבְחֵיכֶםand eatוְאִכְלוּflesh.בָשָׂר
Jeremiah 7:21
Study it in the app“Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 7:21, word by word
- saysאָמַרamar
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- Tsevaotצְבָאוֹתtsevaot
Tsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appears- the Elohimאֱלֹהֵיelohe
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears- of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- Addסְפוּsefu
heap up
To pile on: sin upon sin.
Where else “sefu” appears- your burnt offeringsעֹלוֹתֵיolote
burnt offering
A sacrifice burned whole on the altar.
Where else “olote” appears- to your sacrificesזִבְחֵיzivche
sacrifice
An animal offered to God and eaten together.
Where else “zivche” appears- and eatאִכְלוּichlu
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “ichlu” appears- fleshבָשָׂרvasar
flesh
The body of a person or animal, the soft part covering the bones.
Where else “vasar” appears
The context
20Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, my anger and my fury are poured out on this place, on human beings and on livestock, and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.
21 · This verse (above)
22For I did not speak to your fathers or command them on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning matters of burnt offering and sacrifice.