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Cut offגָּזִּיyour hairנִזְרֵךְand throw it away,וְהַשְׁלִיכִיand raiseוּשְׂאִיon the bare heightsעַל שְׁפָיִםa lament,קִינָהforכִּיYHWHיְהוָהhas rejectedמָאַסand forsakenוַיִּטֹּשׁtheאֶתgenerationדּוֹרof his wrath.עֶבְרָתוֹ
Jeremiah 7:29
Study it in the app“Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise on the bare heights a lament, for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 7:29, word by word
- Cut offגָּזִּיgazi
shave
To cut one's hair; or be destroyed.
Where else “gazi” appears- your hairנִזְרֵnizre
consecration
Being set apart for God, like the Nazirite.
Where else “nizre” appears- and throw it awayהַשְׁלִיכִיhashlichi
throw
To throw something with force, far off or down.
Where else “hashlichi” appears- and raiseשְׂאִיsei
lift up
To direct the eyes upward, make the voice loud, or put up the hand.
Where else “sei” appears- on the bare heightsשְׁפָיִםshefayim
bare height
Bare hill, a height without trees.
Where else “shefayim” appears- a lamentקִינָהkina
lament, dirge
Dirge: a poem sung over someone's death or over a disaster. The Hebrew name of the book of Lamentations comes from this word.
Where else “kina” 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- has rejectedמָאַסmaas
reject
To regard something or someone as worthless and put it away.
Where else “maas” appears- and forsakenיִּטֹּשׁyitosh
abandon
To turn away from someone or something and leave it behind.
Where else “yitosh” appears- generationדּוֹרdor
generation
The people of the same time.
Where else “dor” appears- of his wrathעֶבְרָתevrat
fury
Overflowing rage, fury.
Where else “evrat” appears
Translation note
The word for “hair” (נֵזֶר) is the one used for the consecration of the Nazirite (Numbers 6:5-7).
The context
28And you will say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not listen to the voice of YHWH its Elohim and did not accept correction; faithfulness has perished, and it has been cut off from their mouth.’
29 · This verse (above)
30For the sons of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, declares YHWH; they have set their detestable things in the house over which my name is called, to defile it.