Jeremiah 16:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתֶּ֛ם הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥ם לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת מֵאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִנְּכֶ֣ם הֹלְכִ֗ים אִ֚ישׁ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ שְׁרִר֣וּת לִבּֽוֹ־הָרָ֔ע לְבִלְתִּ֖י שְׁמֹ֥עַ אֵלָֽי׃

Transliteration

And-you hărēʿōṯem to-laʿăśôṯ more-than-ʾăḇôṯêḵem and-behold-you hōləḵîm each-one after šərirûṯ libbô-hā-rāʿ to-ḇiltî šəmōʿa to-me

Grammar Details

*hărēʿōṯem*: hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine plural - you have done evil
*laʿăśôṯ*: qal infinitive construct - to do
*ʾăḇôṯêḵem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your fathers
*hōləḵîm*: qal participle, masculine plural - walking/going
*šərirûṯ*: feminine singular construct - stubbornness of
*libbô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his heart
*hā-rāʿ*: definite article + masculine singular adjective - the evil
*ḇiltî*: conjunction - to not/without
*šəmōʿa*: qal infinitive construct - to hear/listen

Word Meanings

*hărēʿōṯem*: done evil/acted wickedly
*šərirûṯ*: stubbornness/hardness/imagination
*lēḇ*: heart/mind/inner person

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Referenced Verses

Jer 7:26 : 26 yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
Jer 13:10 : 10 This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.
Jer 9:14 : 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;
Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
Jer 7:24 : 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Judg 2:19 : 19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Mark 7:21 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Heb 3:12 : 12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:
Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 8:21 : 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
Deut 9:27 : 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
Deut 29:19 : 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

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