Jeremiah 37:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י אִם־הִכִּיתֶ֞ם כָּל־חֵ֤יל כַּשְׂדִּים֙ הַנִּלְחָמִ֣ים אִתְּכֶ֔ם וְנִ֨שְׁאֲרוּ‪[t]‬ בָ֔ם אֲנָשִׁ֖ים מְדֻקָּרִ֑ים אִ֤ישׁ בְּאָהֳלוֹ֙ יָק֔וּמוּ וְשָֽׂרְפ֛וּ אֶת־הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את בָּאֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

For if-hikkîtem all-ḥêl Kaśdîm the-nilḥāmîm with-you and-nišʾărû in-them ʾănāšîm məḏuqqārîm ʾîš in-ʾāhŏlô yāqûmû and-wəśārəp̄û ʾet-the-ʿîr the-zōʾt in-the-ʾēš.

Grammar Details

• *hikkîtem*: Hiphil perfect 2nd masculine plural - you struck/defeated
• *ḥêl*: masculine singular construct - army of
• *Kaśdîm*: proper noun - Chaldeans
• *nilḥāmîm*: Niphal participle masculine plural with definite article - the ones fighting
• *nišʾărû*: Niphal perfect 3rd common plural - remained/were left
• *ʾănāšîm*: masculine plural noun - men
• *məḏuqqārîm*: Pual participle masculine plural - pierced/wounded
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - each man
• *ʾāhŏlô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his tent
• *yāqûmû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they would rise
• *wəśārəp̄û*: waw + Qal perfect 3rd common plural - and they would burn
• *ʿîr*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the city
• *zōʾt*: feminine singular demonstrative pronoun with definite article - this
• *ʾēš*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the fire

Word Meanings

• *məḏuqqārîm*: wounded/pierced/stabbed men
• *ʾîš* in-*ʾāhŏlô*: each in his tent/every man in his tent

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:36-38 : 36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
• Isa 30:17 : 17 One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
• Jer 21:4-7 : 4 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city. 5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation. 6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
• Jer 37:8 : 8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
• Jer 49:20 : 20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
• Jer 50:45 : 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
• Jer 51:4 : 4 And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
• Joel 2:11 : 11 And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word; for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
• Isa 10:4 : 4 They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Isa 13:15 : 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
• Isa 14:19 : 19 But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.