Jeremiah 51:60

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ אֵ֧ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־תָּב֥וֹא אֶל־בָּבֶ֖ל אֶל־סֵ֣פֶר אֶחָ֑ד אֵ֚ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה הַכְּתֻבִ֖ים אֶל־בָּבֶֽל׃

Transliteration

wayyiḵtōḇ yirmiyāhû ʾēt kol-hārāʿāh ʾăšer-tāḇôʾ ʾel-bāḇel ʾel-sēper ʾeḥād ʾēt kol-haddəḇārîm hāʾēlleh hakkətuḇîm ʾel-bāḇel

Grammar Details

• *wayyiḵtōḇ*: Waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he wrote
• *yirmiyāhû*: proper noun - Jeremiah
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *kol*: masculine singular construct - all of
• *hārāʿāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the disaster/evil
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *tāḇôʾ*: Qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - would come
• *ʾel*: preposition - against/concerning
• *bāḇel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *sēper*: masculine singular noun - scroll/book
• *ʾeḥād*: cardinal number - one
• *haddəḇārîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the words
• *hāʾēlleh*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun common plural - these
• *hakkətuḇîm*: definite article + Qal passive participle masculine plural - the (ones) written

Word Meanings

• *hārāʿāh*: the disaster/the evil/the calamity
• *sēper*: scroll/book/document

Referenced Verses

• Isa 30:8 : 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
• Jer 30:2-3 : 2 Thus speaketh Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. 3 For, lo, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
• Jer 36:32 : 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.
• Hab 2:2-3 : 2 And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
• Rev 1:11 : 11 saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send [it] to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
• Rev 1:19 : 19 Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass {G3326} hereafter;
• Isa 8:1-4 : 1 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 2 and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
• Dan 12:4 : 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
• Jer 36:2-4 : 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.