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Forכִּיdeathמָוֶתhas come upעָלָהthrough our windows;בְּחַלּוֹנֵינוּit has enteredבָּאour palaces,בְּאַרְמְנוֹתֵינוּto cut offלְהַכְרִיתthe childעוֹלָלfrom the street,מִחוּץthe young menבַּחוּרִיםfrom the squares.מֵרְחֹבוֹת
Jeremiah 9:21
Study it in the app“For death has come up through our windows; it has entered our palaces, to cut off the child from the street, the young men from the squares.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 9:21, word by word
- deathמָוֶתmavet
death
The end of life: when someone stops breathing and returns to dust.
Where else “mavet” appears- has come upעָלָהala
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “ala” appears- through our windowsחַלּוֹנֵיchalone
window
Window: an opening in a wall.
Where else “chalone” appears- it has enteredבָּאba
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “ba” appears- our palacesאַרְמְנוֹתֵיarmnote
citadel, fortress
Citadel, fortified palace: the high and strongest part of a city or of the king's house.
Where else “armnote” appears- to cut offהַכְרִיתhachrit
cut off
To wipe out, or be shut out from the people.
Where else “hachrit” appears- the childעוֹלָלolal
young child
A small child, an infant. Said of young children, often together with "the nursing child."
Where else “olal” appears- from the streetחוּץchuts
street
The ways and squares between the houses, where people go about.
Where else “chuts” appears- the young menבַּחוּרִיםbachurim
young man
A young man in the fullness of his strength.
Where else “bachurim” appears- from the squaresרְחֹבוֹתrechovot
square
Square: the open space of a town.
Where else “rechovot” appears
The context
20Now hear, women, the word of YHWH, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters a wailing, and each woman her companion a lament.
21 · This verse (above)
22Speak: “Thus declares YHWH: ‘The corpses of human beings will fall like dung on the face of the field, and like a sheaf behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.’”