Jeremiah 8:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי֩ הִנְנִ֨י מְשַׁלֵּ֜חַ בָּכֶ֗ם נְחָשִׁים֙ צִפְעֹנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵין־לָהֶ֖ם לָ֑חַשׁ וְנִשְּׁכ֥וּ אֶתְכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

For behold I am mᵊšallēaḥ among-you nᵊḥāšîm ṣipᵊʿōnîm, which there-is-not-to-them lāḥaš; and-they shall wᵊniššᵊkû ʾetkemm nᵊʾum-YHWH.

Grammar Details

*mᵊšallēaḥ*: piel participle masculine singular - sending
*nᵊḥāšîm*: plural noun - serpents/snakes
*ṣipᵊʿōnîm*: plural noun - vipers/adders
*lāḥaš*: noun - charm/spell/incantation
*wᵊniššᵊkû*: piel perfect 3rd person plural with waw conjunction - and they will bite
*ʾetkemm*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
*nᵊʾum*: construct state - utterance/declaration of
*YHWH*: divine name

Word Meanings

*mᵊšallēaḥ*: sending/dispatching/letting loose
*nᵊḥāšîm*: serpents/snakes
*ṣipᵊʿōnîm*: vipers/adders/venomous snakes
*lāḥaš*: charm/spell/incantation/whisper
*wᵊniššᵊkû*: will bite/sting

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:24 : 24 [ They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, 5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
Eccl 10:11 : 11 If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.
Num 21:6 : 6 And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Isa 14:29 : 29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3 : 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Rev 9:19 : 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

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