Jeremiah 8:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הֲיִפְּל֖וּ וְלֹ֣א יָק֑וּמוּ אִם־יָשׁ֖וּב וְלֹ֥א יָשֽׁוּב׃

Transliteration

And-you shall ʾāmartā to-them, kōh ʾāmar YHWH: hă-shall they yippᵊlû and-not yāqûmû? ʾim-one yāšûb and-not yāšûb?

Grammar Details

*ʾāmartā*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will say
*kōh*: adverb - thus/so
*ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he said
*YHWH*: divine name
*hă*: interrogative particle - introduces a question
*yippᵊlû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will fall
*yāqûmû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will rise/stand up
*ʾim*: conditional particle - if
*yāšûb*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will return/turn back

Word Meanings

*ʾāmartā*: say/speak/tell
*kōh*: thus/so/in this manner
*ʾāmar*: said/spoke/declared
*yippᵊlû*: fall/collapse/be overthrown
*yāqûmû*: rise/stand up/get up
*yāšûb*: return/turn back/repent

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 24:16 : 16 For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Mic 7:8 : 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.
Hos 7:10 : 10 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.
Hos 14:1 : 1 O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Amos 5:2 : 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
1 Kgs 8:38 : 38 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Isa 44:22 : 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.
Jer 4:1 : 1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;
Jer 23:14 : 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jer 36:3 : 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.
Ezek 18:23 : 23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

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