Jeremiah 7:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֠י לֹֽא־דִבַּ֤רְתִּי אֶת־אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ וְלֹ֣א צִוִּיתִ֔ים בְּי֛וֹם *הוציא **הוֹצִיאִ֥י אוֹתָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם עַל־דִּבְרֵ֥י עוֹלָ֖ה וָזָֽבַח׃

Transliteration

For not-dibbartî ʾet-ʾăbôtêkem and-not-ṣiwwîtîm in-yôm hôṣîʾî them from-ʾereṣ miṣrāyim concerning-dibrê ʿôlāh wāzābaḥ.

Grammar Details

• *dibbartî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I spoke
• *ʾet-ʾăbôtêkem*: direct object marker + masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - with your fathers
• *ṣiwwîtîm*: piel perfect 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - I commanded them
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun construct - day of
• *hôṣîʾî*: hiphil infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix - my bringing out
• *ʾereṣ*: feminine singular noun construct - land of
• *miṣrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *dibrê*: masculine plural construct of *dābār* - matters of
• *ʿôlāh*: feminine singular noun - burnt offering
• *wāzābaḥ*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and sacrifice

Word Meanings

• *dibbartî*: I spoke/I talked/I declared
• *ṣiwwîtîm*: I commanded them/I ordered them/I instructed them
• *hôṣîʾî*: my bringing out/my leading out/my causing to go out
• *dibrê*: matters of/words of/things of
• *ʿôlāh*: burnt offering/whole burnt sacrifice
• *zābaḥ*: sacrifice/slaughtered offering

Referenced Verses

• Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
• 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Hath Jehovah as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
• Ps 40:6 : 6 Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.
• Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth, 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?
• Ps 51:16-17 : 16 For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
• Matt 9:13 : 13 But go ye and learn what [this] meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
• Mark 12:33 : 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.