Jeremiah 9:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָה וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָה עָלֵ֖ינוּ נֶ֑הִי וְתֵרַ֤דְנָה עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ דִּמְעָ֔ה וְעַפְעַפֵּ֖ינוּ יִזְּלוּ־מָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

ûtĕmahērnāh wĕtiśśenāh over-us nehî wĕtērednāh 'ênênû dim'āh wĕ'ap'appênû yizzĕlû-māyim

Grammar Details

*ûtĕmahērnāh*: conjunction + imperfect verb, 3rd person feminine plural, piel - and let them hasten
*wĕtiśśenāh*: conjunction + imperfect verb, 3rd person feminine plural, qal - and let them lift up
*nehî*: masculine noun - wailing
*wĕtērednāh*: conjunction + imperfect verb, 3rd person feminine plural - and let them run down
*'ênênû*: feminine dual noun with 1st person plural suffix - our eyes
*dim'āh*: feminine noun - tear
*wĕ'ap'appênû*: conjunction + masculine plural noun with 1st person plural suffix - and our eyelids
*yizzĕlû*: imperfect verb, 3rd person masculine plural - they will flow/gush
*māyim*: masculine dual noun - water

Word Meanings

*ûtĕmahērnāh*: and let them hasten/hurry/make haste
*wĕtiśśenāh*: and let them lift up/raise/bear
*nehî*: wailing/lamentation/dirge
*wĕtērednāh*: and let them run down/descend/flow down
*'ênênû*: our eyes/sight/vision
*dim'āh*: tear/weeping/crying
*wĕ'ap'appênû*: and our eyelids/eyelashes
*yizzĕlû*: they will flow/gush/stream
*māyim*: water/waters/liquid

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Eccl 12:5 : 5 yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Job 3:8 : 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Amos 5:16-17 : 16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.
Matt 9:23 : 23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult,
Mark 5:38 : 38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he beholdeth a tumult, and [many] weeping and wailing greatly.

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