Jeremiah 1:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י מִצָּפוֹן֙ תִּפָּתַ֣ח הָרָעָ֔ה עַ֥ל כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֖י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

wa-yōʾmer YHWH ʾēlāy from-ṣāpôn tippātaḥ hā-rāʿāh upon all-yōšĕbê hā-ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

• *wa-yōʾmer*: waw-consecutive with Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ʾēlāy*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to me
• *ṣāpôn*: singular noun - north
• *tippātaḥ*: Niphal imperfect 3rd feminine singular - will be opened/will break forth
• *hā-rāʿāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the evil/disaster
• *yōšĕbê*: Qal participle masculine plural construct - dwellers/inhabitants of
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land/earth

Word Meanings

• *tippātaḥ*: will be opened/will break forth/will be let loose
• *hā-rāʿāh*: the evil/the disaster/the calamity
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: the land/the earth/the country/the territory

Referenced Verses

• Isa 41:25 : 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
• Jer 4:6 : 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
• Jer 10:22 : 22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
• Jer 31:8 : 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
• Jer 46:20 : 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
• Jer 50:9 : 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
• Jer 50:41 : 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
• Ezek 1:4 : 4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
• Jer 6:1 : 1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
• Jer 6:22 : 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.