Jeremiah 10:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּתֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ וְלֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ נָשׂ֥וֹא יִנָּשׂ֖וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֣א יִצְעָ֑דוּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֤וּ מֵהֶם֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔עוּ וְגַם־הֵיטֵ֖יב אֵ֥ין אוֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

Like-tōmer miqšāh they and-not yədabbērû nāśôʾ yinnāśûʾ for not yiṣʿādû ʾal-tîrəʾû from-them kî-not yārēʿû and-also-to-do-good not them

Grammar Details

*tōmer*: noun, masculine singular - palm tree/pillar
*miqšāh*: noun, feminine singular - cucumber field/garden
*yədabbērû*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they speak
*nāśôʾ*: infinitive absolute, qal - being carried
*yinnāśûʾ*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they are carried
*yiṣʿādû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they walk/march
*tîrəʾû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + negative particle - do not fear
*yārēʿû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they do harm/evil

Word Meanings

*tōmer*: palm tree/pillar/post/scarecrow
*miqšāh*: cucumber field/garden of cucumbers/turnip field
*yinnāśûʾ*: they are carried/borne/lifted
*yiṣʿādû*: they walk/march/step/stride
*yārēʿû*: they do harm/evil/mischief

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
1 Cor 12:2 : 2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
Isa 41:23-24 : 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Hab 2:19 : 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Isa 46:1 : 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
1 Cor 8:4 : 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Rev 13:14-15 : 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Isa 44:9-9 : 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Ps 115:5-8 : 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Ps 135:16-18 : 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; 17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

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