Jeremiah 49:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהֵבֵאתִ֨י אֶל־עֵילָ֜ם אַרְבַּ֣ע רוּח֗וֹת מֵֽאַרְבַּע֙ קְצ֣וֹת הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְזֵ֣רִתִ֔ים לְכֹ֖ל הָרֻח֣וֹת הָאֵ֑לֶּה וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה הַגּ֔וֹי אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹֽא־יָב֥וֹא שָׁ֖ם נִדְּחֵ֥י *עולם **עֵילָֽם׃

Transliteration

wə-hēbēʾtî ʾel-ʿêlām ʾarbaʿ rûḥôt mēʾarbaʿ qəṣôt haššāmayim wə-zērītîm ləkōl hārûḥôt hāʾēlleh wə-lōʾ-yihyeh haggôy ʾăšer lōʾ-yābôʾ šām niddəḥê ʿêlām

Grammar Details

*wə-hēbēʾtî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular - and I will bring
*ʾel-ʿêlām*: preposition + proper noun - to/against Elam
*ʾarbaʿ*: numeral, feminine - four
*rûḥôt*: noun, feminine plural - winds/spirits
*mēʾarbaʿ*: preposition + numeral, feminine - from four
*qəṣôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - ends/extremities of
*haššāmayim*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the heavens/sky
*wə-zērītîm*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular + object suffix, 3rd plural - and I will scatter them
*ləkōl*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - to all
*hārûḥôt*: definite article + noun, feminine plural - the winds
*hāʾēlleh*: definite article + demonstrative, plural - these
*wə-lōʾ-yihyeh*: conjunction + negative particle + imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and there will not be
*haggôy*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the nation
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*lōʾ-yābôʾ*: negative particle + imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will not come
*šām*: adverb - there
*niddəḥê*: participle, masculine plural construct - outcasts/dispersed ones of
*ʿêlām*: proper noun - Elam

Word Meanings

*hēbēʾtî*: I will bring/cause to come
*ʿêlām*: Elam (place/people name)
*rûḥôt*: winds/spirits/directions
*qəṣôt*: ends/extremities/quarters
*šāmayim*: heavens/sky
*zērītîm*: I will scatter/disperse them
*gôy*: nation/people
*yābôʾ*: will come/enter
*niddəḥê*: outcasts/dispersed ones/banished ones

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Referenced Verses

Jer 49:32 : 32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith Jehovah.
Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.
Dan 8:8 : 8 And the he - goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable [horns] toward the four winds of heaven.
Amos 9:9 : 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth.
Rev 7:1 : 1 {G2532} After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.
Dan 8:22 : 22 And as for that which was broken, in the place whereof four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.
Dan 11:4 : 4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion wherewith he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.
Ezek 5:12 : 12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and a third part I will scatter unto all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
Dan 7:2-3 : 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Deut 28:25 : 25 Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deut 28:64 : 64 And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
Ps 147:2 : 2 Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Isa 11:12 : 12 And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 16:3-4 : 3 Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isa 27:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Isa 56:8 : 8 The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, besides his own that are gathered.
Jer 30:17 : 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

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