Jeremiah 26:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים וְהַנְּבִאִים֙ אֶל־הַשָּׂרִ֔ים וְאֶל־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר מִשְׁפַּט־מָ֙וֶת֙ לָאִ֣ישׁ הַזֶּ֔ה כִּ֤י נִבָּא֙ אֶל־הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם בְּאָזְנֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmərû the-kōhănîm and-the-nəḇiʾîm to-the-śārîm and-to-all-the-ʿām saying, mišpaṭ-māweṯ to-the-ʾîš the-this because nibbāʾ to-the-ʿîr the-this as-which šəmaʿtem in-ʾāzənêḵem.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmərû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with waw-consecutive - they said
• *kōhănîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the priests
• *nəḇiʾîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the prophets
• *śārîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the officials
• *mišpaṭ*: construct state, masculine singular - judgment of
• *māweṯ*: masculine singular - death
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular with definite article - the man
• *nibbāʾ*: Niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he prophesied
• *ʿîr*: feminine singular with definite article - the city
• *šəmaʿtem*: Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you heard
• *ʾāzənêḵem*: feminine dual with 2nd person masculine plural possessive suffix - your ears

Word Meanings

• *mišpaṭ-māweṯ*: death sentence/judgment of death
• *ʾōzen*: ear/hearing

Referenced Verses

• Jer 38:4 : 4 Then the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
• Matt 26:66 : 66 what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.
• Deut 18:20 : 20 But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
• Acts 6:11-14 : 11 Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God. 12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council, 13 and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak {G989} words against this holy place, and the law: 14 for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us.
• Acts 22:22 : 22 And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
• Acts 24:4-9 : 4 But, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I entreat thee to hear us of thy clemency a few words. 5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: 6 who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold: 8 from whom thou wilt be able, by examining him thyself, to take knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him. 9 And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so.
• Acts 25:2-9 : 2 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they besought him, 3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way. 4 Howbeit {G3303} Festus answered, that Paul was kept in charge at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart {G1722} [thither] shortly. 5 Let them therefore, saith he, that are of power among you go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse {G2723} him. 6 And when he had tarried among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and on the morrow he sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded Paul to be brought. 7 And when he was come, the Jews that had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove; 8 while Paul said in his defense, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all. 9 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? 10 But Paul said, I am standing before Caesar's judgment-seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest. 11 {G1063} If then {G3303} I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is [true] whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Caesar. 12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed unto Caesar: unto Caesar shalt thou go. 13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus.
• Luke 23:1-5 : 1 And the whole company of them rose up, and brought him before Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king. 3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest. 4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man. 5 But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, and beginning from Galilee even unto this place.
• John 18:30 : 30 They answered and said unto him, If this man were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up unto thee.
• John 19:7 : 7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
• Jer 18:23 : 23 Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.