Jeremiah 16:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתֶּ֛ם הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥ם לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת מֵאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִנְּכֶ֣ם הֹלְכִ֗ים אִ֚ישׁ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ שְׁרִר֣וּת לִבּֽוֹ־הָרָ֔ע לְבִלְתִּ֖י שְׁמֹ֥עַ אֵלָֽי׃

Transliteration

And-you hărēʿōṯem to-laʿăśôṯ more-than-ʾăḇôṯêḵem and-behold-you hōləḵîm each-one after šərirûṯ libbô-hā-rāʿ to-ḇiltî šəmōʿa to-me

Grammar Details

*hărēʿōṯem*: hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine plural - you have done evil
*laʿăśôṯ*: qal infinitive construct - to do
*ʾăḇôṯêḵem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your fathers
*hōləḵîm*: qal participle, masculine plural - walking/going
*šərirûṯ*: feminine singular construct - stubbornness of
*libbô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his heart
*hā-rāʿ*: definite article + masculine singular adjective - the evil
*ḇiltî*: conjunction - to not/without
*šəmōʿa*: qal infinitive construct - to hear/listen

Word Meanings

*hărēʿōṯem*: done evil/acted wickedly
*šərirûṯ*: stubbornness/hardness/imagination
*lēḇ*: heart/mind/inner person

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Referenced Verses

Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
Jer 13:10 : 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Jer 9:14 : 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Jer 7:24 : 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Judg 2:19 : 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Mark 7:21 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Heb 3:12 : 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
Gen 6:5 : 5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Deut 9:27 : 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
Deut 29:19 : 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

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