Jeremiah 30:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Thus speaketh the Lorde God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the wordes, that I haue spoken vnto thee in a booke.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר כְּתָב־לְךָ֗ אֵ֧ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי אֵלֶ֖יךָ אֶל־סֵֽפֶר

Transliteration

Thus ʾāmar Yhwh ʾᵉlōhê yiśrāʾēl lēʾmōr kᵉtāḇ-lᵉḵā ʾēt all-the-dᵉḇārîm which-dibbarti to-you to-sēp̄er

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - said/spoke
• *Yhwh*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʾᵉlōhê*: masculine plural construct noun - God of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to say/saying
• *kᵉtāḇ-lᵉḵā*: qal imperative masculine singular + preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - write for yourself
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *dᵉḇārîm*: masculine plural noun - words/things/matters
• *dibbarti*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I have spoken/said
• *sēp̄er*: masculine singular noun - book/scroll/document

Word Meanings

• *ʾāmar*: said/spoke/commanded
• *ʾᵉlōhê*: God of/deity of
• *kᵉtāḇ-lᵉḵā*: write for yourself/record for yourself
• *dᵉḇārîm*: words/matters/things/commands
• *sēp̄er*: book/scroll/document/letter

Referenced Verses

• Isa 30:8 : 8 Now go, and write it before them in a table, and note it in a booke that it may be for the last day for euer and euer:
• Jer 36:32 : 32 Then tooke Ieremiah another roule, and gaue it Baruch the scribe the sonne of Neriah, which wrote therein at the mouth of Ieremiah all the wordes of the booke which Iehoiakim King of Iudah had burnt in the fire, and there were added besides them many like wordes.
• Jer 51:60-64 : 60 So Ieremiah wrote in a booke all the euill that should come vpo Babel: euen al these things, that are written against Babel. 61 And Ieremiah sayd to Sheraiah, Whe thou commest vnto Babel, and shalt see, & shalt reade all these wordes, 62 Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remaine in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate for euer. 63 And when thou hast made an ende of reading this booke, thou shalt binde a stone to it, & cast it in the middes of Euphrates, 64 And shalt say, Thus shal Babel be drowned, and shall not rise from the euil, that I will bring vpon her: and they shal be weary. Thus farre are the wordes of Ieremiah.
• Dan 12:4 : 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut vp the words, and seale the boke til the end of the time: many shal run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
• Hab 2:2-3 : 2 And the Lorde answered me, and sayde, Write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shal speake, and not lie: though it tarie, waite: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.
• Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatsoeuer things are written aforetime, are writte for our learning, that we through patience, and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope.
• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Nowe all these things came vnto them for ensamples, and were written to admonish vs, vpon whome the endes of the world are come.
• 2 Pet 1:21 : 21 For the prophecie came not in olde time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moued by the holy Ghost.
• Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, that first and that last: & that which thou seest, write in a booke, and send it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamus, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.
• Rev 1:19 : 19 Write the things which thou hast seene, and the things which are, & the things which shall come hereafter.
• Jer 36:2-4 : 2 Take thee a roule or booke, and write therein all the wordes that I haue spoken to thee against Israel, and against Iudah, and against all the nations, from the day that I spake vnto thee, euen from the dayes of Iosiah vnto this day. 3 It may bee that the House of Iudah will heare of all the euill, which I determined to doe vnto them that they may returne euery man from his euil way, that I may forgiue their iniquitie and their sinnes. 4 Then Ieremiah called Baruch the sonne of Neriah, and Baruch wrote at the mouth of Ieremiah all the wordes of the Lorde, which hee had spoken vnto him, vpon a roule or booke.
• Exod 17:14 : 14 And the Lorde sayde to Moses, Write this for a remembrance in the booke, and rehearse it to Ioshua: for I will vtterly put out the remembraunce of Amalek from vnder heauen.
• Deut 31:19 : 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouthes, that this song may be my witnesse against the children of Israel.
• Deut 31:22-27 : 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And God gaue Ioshua the sonne of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong, and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the lande, which I sware vnto them, and I will be with thee. 24 And when Moses had made an ende of writing the wordes of this Lawe in a booke vntill he had finished them, 25 Then Moses commaunded the Leuites, which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde, saying, 26 Take the booke of this Lawe, and put ye it in the side of the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde your God, that it may be there for a witnes against thee. 27 For I knowe thy rebellion and thy stiffe necke: beholde, I being yet aliue with you this day, ye are rebellious against the Lorde: howe much more then after my death?
• Job 19:23-24 : 23 Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke, 24 And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
• Isa 8:1 : 1 Moreouer, the Lord sayd vnto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a mans penne, Make speede to the spoyle: haste to the praye.