Jeremiah 11:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ עַל־אַנְשֵׁ֣י עֲנָת֔וֹת הַֽמְבַקְשִׁ֥ים אֶֽת־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ לֵאמֹ֑ר לֹ֤א תִנָּבֵא֙ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א תָמ֖וּת בְּיָדֵֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

Therefore, thus-ʾāmar yhwh concerning-ʾanšê ʿănātôt hamĕbaqqĕšîm ʾet-napšĕkā lēʾmōr: Not tinnābēʾ in-šēm yhwh and-not tāmût in-yādēnû.

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said
• *yhwh*: proper noun - YHWH/LORD
• *ʾanšê*: noun, masculine plural construct - men of
• *ʿănātôt*: proper noun - Anathoth
• *hamĕbaqqĕšîm*: definite Piel participle, masculine plural - the ones seeking
• *napšĕkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your life/soul
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to say/saying
• *tinnābēʾ*: Niphal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you prophesy
• *šēm*: noun, masculine singular construct - name of
• *tāmût*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will die
• *yādēnû*: noun, feminine plural with 1st person plural suffix - our hands

Word Meanings

• *ʾanšê ʿănātôt*: men of Anathoth/people from Anathoth
• *hamĕbaqqĕšîm ʾet-napšĕkā*: who seek your life/who want to kill you/who are trying to take your soul
• *tinnābēʾ*: you prophesy/you speak as a prophet/you proclaim
• *tāmût bĕyādēnû*: you will die by our hands/we will kill you

Referenced Verses

• Amos 2:12 : 12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
• Isa 30:10 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:
• Jer 12:5-6 : 5 If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan? 6 For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.
• Jer 20:10 : 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
• Luke 13:33-34 : 33 But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem. 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
• Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
• Jer 26:8 : 8 Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.
• Jer 38:1-6 : 1 Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, that Jeremiah had said to all the people, 2 These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe. 3 The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it. 4 Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage. 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them. 6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.
• Jer 20:1-2 : 1 Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things; 2 And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.
• Amos 7:13-16 : 13 But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house. 14 Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees: 15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel. 16 Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.
• Mic 2:6-9 : 6 Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob! 7 Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel? 8 As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war. 9 The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever. 10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you. 11 If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
• Mic 7:6 : 6 For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.
• Matt 10:21 : 21 And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.
• Matt 10:34-36 : 34 Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: 36 And a man will be hated by those of his house.
• Matt 21:35 : 35 And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.
• Matt 22:6 : 6 And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.
• Matt 23:34-37 : 34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
• Luke 4:24 : 24 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.