Jeremiah 49:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֛ן יִפְּל֥וּ בַחוּרֶ֖יהָ בִּרְחֹבֹתֶ֑יהָ וְכָל־אַנְשֵׁ֨י הַמִּלְחָמָ֤ה יִדַּ֙מּוּ֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת

Transliteration

Therefore yippelu her bakhurehha in her rekhovoteha, and all anshei ha-milkhama yiddammu in the day hahu, neum YHWH Tsevaot

Grammar Details

*yippelu*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will fall
*bakhurehha*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd person feminine singular possessive suffix - her young men
*rekhovoteha*: noun, feminine plural + 3rd person feminine singular possessive suffix - her streets/squares
*anshei*: noun, masculine plural construct - men of
*ha-milkhama*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the war/battle
*yiddammu*: niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will be silenced/cut off
*hahu*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that
*neum*: construct state - declaration/utterance of
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*Tsevaot*: noun, feminine plural - hosts/armies

Word Meanings

*yippelu*: will fall/will be killed
*bakhurehha*: her young men/her choice men
*rekhovoteha*: her streets/public squares/broad places
*anshei*: men of/soldiers of
*ha-milkhama*: the war/battle/fighting
*yiddammu*: will be silenced/cut off/destroyed
*neum*: utterance/declaration/oracle
*Tsevaot*: hosts/armies/of armies

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jer 50:30 : 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.
Jer 11:22 : 22 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
Amos 4:10 : 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 9:21 : 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
Jer 51:3-4 : 3 Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 4 And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Lam 2:21 : 21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
Ezek 27:27 : 27 Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

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