Jeremiah 11:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הִנְנִ֥י פֹקֵ֖ד עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם הַבַּֽחוּרִים֙ יָמֻ֣תוּ בַחֶ֔רֶב בְּנֵיהֶם֙ וּבְנ֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔ם יָמֻ֖תוּ בָּרָעָֽב׃

Transliteration

Therefore, thus ʾāmar yhwh ṣĕbāʾôt: hinĕnî pōqēd upon-them, habbaḥûrîm yāmûtû by-ḥereb, bĕnêhem and-bĕnôtêhem yāmûtû by-rāʿāb.

Grammar Details

*ʾāmar*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said
*yhwh*: proper noun - YHWH/LORD
*ṣĕbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural - hosts/armies
*hinĕnî*: interjection with 1st person singular suffix - behold me
*pōqēd*: Qal participle, masculine singular - visiting/punishing
*habbaḥûrîm*: definite noun, masculine plural - the young men
*yāmûtû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will die
*ḥereb*: noun, feminine singular - sword
*bĕnêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their sons
*bĕnôtêhem*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their daughters
*rāʿāb*: noun, masculine singular - famine

Word Meanings

*hinĕnî pōqēd*: behold, I am punishing/I am about to visit/I will take action against
*habbaḥûrîm*: the young men/the choice men/the strong men
*ḥereb*: sword/warfare/violence
*rāʿāb*: famine/hunger/starvation

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
2 Chr 36:17 : 17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
Jer 9:21 : 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
Lam 2:21 : 21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

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