Jeremiah 50:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חִרְבוּ֙ כָּל־פָּרֶ֔יהָ יֵרְד֖וּ לַטָּ֑בַח ה֣וֹי עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כִּֽי־בָ֥א יוֹמָ֖ם עֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

ḥirvu all-pareha yerdu to the tabbaḥ hoy upon them for baʾ yomam ʿet pəquddatam.

Grammar Details

• *ḥirvu*: imperative, masculine plural - slay/destroy
• *pareha*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her bulls/leaders
• *yerdu*: imperative, masculine plural - let them go down
• *tabbaḥ*: noun, masculine singular + definite article - the slaughter
• *hoy*: interjection - woe/alas
• *baʾ*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - has come
• *yomam*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their day
• *ʿet*: noun, feminine singular construct - time of
• *pəquddatam*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their visitation/punishment

Word Meanings

• *ḥirvu*: slay/destroy/kill
• *pareha*: her bulls/young bulls/leaders (metaphorical for warriors or leaders)
• *yerdu*: go down/descend/be brought down
• *tabbaḥ*: slaughter/butchering
• *hoy*: woe/alas/ah (exclamation of distress)
• *pəquddatam*: their visitation/punishment/reckoning

Referenced Verses

• Jer 46:21 : 21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
• Isa 34:7 : 7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
• Ps 22:12 : 12 Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
• Ps 37:13 : 13 The Lord will laugh at him; For he seeth that his day is coming.
• Jer 48:44 : 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
• Jer 50:11 : 11 Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;
• Jer 50:31 : 31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
• Lam 1:21 : 21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
• Ezek 7:5-7 : 5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh. 6 An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee; behold, it cometh. 7 Thy doom is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, upon the mountains.
• Ezek 39:17-20 : 17 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Speak unto the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Rev 16:17-19 : 17 And the seventh {G32} poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, {G3772} from the throne, saying, It is done: 18 and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since {G3739} there were men upon the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
• Rev 18:10 : 10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
• Rev 19:17 : 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God;
• Jer 27:7 : 7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.