Jeremiah 10:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּתֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ וְלֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ נָשׂ֥וֹא יִנָּשׂ֖וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֣א יִצְעָ֑דוּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֤וּ מֵהֶם֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔עוּ וְגַם־הֵיטֵ֖יב אֵ֥ין אוֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

Like-tōmer miqšāh they and-not yədabbērû nāśôʾ yinnāśûʾ for not yiṣʿādû ʾal-tîrəʾû from-them kî-not yārēʿû and-also-to-do-good not them

Grammar Details

*tōmer*: noun, masculine singular - palm tree/pillar
*miqšāh*: noun, feminine singular - cucumber field/garden
*yədabbērû*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they speak
*nāśôʾ*: infinitive absolute, qal - being carried
*yinnāśûʾ*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they are carried
*yiṣʿādû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they walk/march
*tîrəʾû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + negative particle - do not fear
*yārēʿû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they do harm/evil

Word Meanings

*tōmer*: palm tree/pillar/post/scarecrow
*miqšāh*: cucumber field/garden of cucumbers/turnip field
*yinnāśûʾ*: they are carried/borne/lifted
*yiṣʿādû*: they walk/march/step/stride
*yārēʿû*: they do harm/evil/mischief

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Referenced Verses

Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
1 Cor 12:2 : 2 Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever {G302} ye might led.
Isa 41:23-24 : 23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Hab 2:19 : 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Isa 46:1 : 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [beast].
1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no {G2087} God but {G3361} one.
Rev 13:14-15 : 14 And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived. 15 And it was given [unto him] to give breath to it, [even] to the image to the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Isa 44:9-9 : 9 They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame. 10 Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Ps 115:5-8 : 5 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not; 6 They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but they smell not; 7 They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
Ps 135:16-18 : 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not; 17 They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.

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