Jeremiah 5:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּכְלוּב֙ מָ֣לֵא ע֔וֹף כֵּ֥ן בָּתֵּיהֶ֖ם מְלֵאִ֣ים מִרְמָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֥ן גָּדְל֖וּ וַֽיַּעֲשִֽׁירוּ׃

Transliteration

Like kəlûb mālē' 'ôp, so their bāttêhem məlē'îm mirmâ; upon-thus they gādəlû and they wayya'ăšîrû.

Grammar Details

• *ki*: preposition - like/as
• *kəlûb*: noun, masculine singular - cage
• *mālē'*: adjective, masculine singular - full
• *'ôp*: noun, masculine singular - birds/fowl
• *kēn*: adverb - thus/so
• *bāttêhem*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their houses
• *məlē'îm*: adjective, masculine plural - full
• *mirmâ*: noun, feminine singular - deceit
• *'al*: preposition - upon/because of
• *gādəlû*: perfect, 3rd plural - they became great
• *wa*: conjunction - and
• *ya'ăšîrû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, hiphil - they became rich

Word Meanings

• *kəlûb*: cage/basket
• *mirmâ*: deceit/fraud/treachery
• *gādəlû*: became great/grew powerful/increased
• *wayya'ăšîrû*: became rich/gained wealth

Referenced Verses

• Prov 1:11-13 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; 13 We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;
• Jer 9:6 : 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
• Hos 12:7-8 : 7 [He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.
• Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
• Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
• Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
• Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
• Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried {G2479} with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.