Jeremiah 30:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שַׁאֲלוּ־נָ֣א וּרְא֔וּ אִם־יֹלֵ֖ד זָכָ֑ר מַדּוּעַ֩ רָאִ֨יתִי כָל־גֶּ֜בֶר יָדָ֤יו עַל־חֲלָצָיו֙ כַּיּ֣וֹלֵדָ֔ה וְנֶהֶפְכ֥וּ כָל־פָּנִ֖ים לְיֵרָקֽוֹן

Transliteration

šaʾălû-nāʾ and-rᵉʾû if-yōlēḏ zāḵār maddûaʿ rāʾîṯî all-geḇer yāḏāyw on-ḥălāṣāyw like-kayyôlēḏāh and-nehepeḵû all-pānîm to-yērāqôn

Grammar Details

*šaʾălû-nāʾ*: qal imperative masculine plural + particle of entreaty - ask, please
*rᵉʾû*: qal imperative masculine plural - see/look
*yōlēḏ*: qal active participle masculine singular - gives birth
*zāḵār*: masculine singular noun - male
*maddûaʿ*: interrogative adverb - why
*rāʾîṯî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have seen
*geḇer*: masculine singular noun - man/strong man
*yāḏāyw*: feminine dual noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his hands
*ḥălāṣāyw*: masculine dual noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his loins/sides
*kayyôlēḏāh*: preposition + definite article + qal active participle feminine singular - like the woman giving birth
*nehepeḵû*: niphal perfect 3rd person common plural - they are turned/changed
*pānîm*: masculine plural noun - faces
*yērāqôn*: masculine singular noun - paleness/jaundice

Word Meanings

*geḇer*: man/strong man/warrior
*ḥălāṣāyw*: loins/sides/thighs
*nehepeḵû*: turned/changed/transformed
*yērāqôn*: paleness/jaundice/greenness

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Referenced Verses

Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
Joel 2:6 : 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Hos 13:13 : 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.
1 Thess 5:3 : 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Jer 6:24 : 24 We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
Ps 48:6 : 6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.
Isa 21:3 : 3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Jer 22:23 : 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jer 49:24 : 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
Jer 50:43 : 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Dan 5:6 : 6 Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Isa 29:22 : 22 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
Isa 13:6-9 : 6 Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: 8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame. 9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Mic 4:9-9 : 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail? 10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
John 16:21-22 : 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world. 22 And ye therefore {G3303} now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you.
Jer 13:21 : 21 What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

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