Jeremiah 6:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־*תצאי **תֵּֽצְאוּ֙ הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וּבַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אַל־*תלכי **תֵּלֵ֑כוּ כִּ֚י חֶ֣רֶב לְאֹיֵ֔ב מָג֖וֹר מִסָּבִֽיב׃

Transliteration

Do-not you-tēṣəʾû the-śādeh and-in-the-dereḵ do-not you-tēlēḵû for ḥereb to-the-ʾōyēb māgôr from-sābîb.

Grammar Details

*tēṣəʾû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will go out
*śādeh*: noun, masculine singular - field
*dereḵ*: noun, masculine singular - way/road
*tēlēḵû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will walk/go
*ḥereb*: noun, feminine singular - sword
*ʾōyēb*: qal participle, masculine singular - enemy
*māgôr*: noun, masculine singular - terror/fear
*sābîb*: adverb - around/surrounding

Word Meanings

*māgôr* *missābîb*: terror on every side/fear all around
*tēṣəʾû*: you will go out/exit/depart
*ḥereb*: sword/warfare/destruction

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Referenced Verses

Jer 49:29 : 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!
Jer 20:10 : 10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Job 18:11 : 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
Ps 31:13 : 13 For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
Jer 20:3-4 : 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib. 4 For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
Judg 5:6-7 : 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked through byways. 7 The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
2 Chr 15:5 : 5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in; but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
Isa 1:20 : 20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Jer 4:5 : 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
Jer 4:10 : 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.
Jer 8:14 : 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
Luke 19:43 : 43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

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