Jeremiah 30:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

📖 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, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
• Jer 36:32 : 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
• Jer 51:60-64 : 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.
• Dan 12:4 : 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
• Hab 2:2-3 : 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
• Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
• 2 Pet 1:21 : 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.
• Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying, ‹I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send› [it] ‹unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.›
• Rev 1:19 : 19 ‹Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;›
• Jer 36:2-4 : 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 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. 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
• Exod 17:14 : 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this [for] a memorial in a book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
• Deut 31:19 : 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me 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 he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
• Job 19:23-24 : 23 ¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
• Isa 8:1 : 1 ¶ Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.