Jeremiah 42:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go to sojourn there.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּה֙ יָדֹ֣עַ תֵּֽדְע֔וּ כִּ֗י בַּחֶ֛רֶב בָּרָעָ֥ב וּבַדֶּ֖בֶר תָּמ֑וּתוּ בַּמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲפַצְתֶּ֔ם לָב֖וֹא לָג֥וּר שָֽׁם׃

Transliteration

And-wəʿattāh yāḏōaʿ têḏəʿû that by-the-ḥereḇ, by-the-rāʿāḇ, and-by-the-deḇer you-will-tāmûṯû in-the-māqôm which you-ḥăp̄aṣtem to-lāḇôʾ to-lāgûr there.

Grammar Details

*wəʿattāh*: waw conjunction + adverb - and now
*yāḏōaʿ*: Qal infinitive absolute - knowing
*têḏəʿû*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will know
*ḥereḇ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the sword
*rāʿāḇ*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the famine
*deḇer*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the plague
*tāmûṯû*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will die
*māqôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the place
*ḥăp̄aṣtem*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - you desired
*lāḇôʾ*: Qal infinitive construct - to come/enter
*lāgûr*: Qal infinitive construct - to dwell/sojourn

Word Meanings

*wəʿattāh*: and now/at this time
*yāḏōaʿ têḏəʿû*: you shall surely know/definitely understand
*ḥereḇ*: sword/warfare/violence
*rāʿāḇ*: famine/hunger/starvation
*deḇer*: plague/pestilence/disease
*tāmûṯû*: you will die/perish
*māqôm*: place/location/site
*ḥăp̄aṣtem*: you desired/wanted/pleased
*lāḇôʾ*: to come/enter/go
*lāgûr*: to dwell/sojourn/live as foreigners

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Referenced Verses

Jer 42:17 : 17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Ezek 6:11 : 11 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Hos 9:6 : 6 For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.
Jer 43:11 : 11 And he shall come, and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.
Ezek 5:3-4 : 3 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. 4 And of these again shalt thou take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

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