Jeremiah 16:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמֵ֨תוּ גְדֹלִ֧ים וּקְטַנִּ֛ים בָּאָ֥רֶץ הַזֹּ֖את לֹ֣א יִקָּבֵ֑רוּ וְלֹֽא־יִסְפְּד֣וּ לָהֶ֔ם וְלֹ֣א יִתְגֹּדַ֔ד וְלֹ֥א יִקָּרֵ֖חַ לָהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-mēṯû gəḏōlîm and-qəṭannîm in-hā-ʾāreṣ ha-zzōʾṯ not yiqqāḇērû and-not yispəḏû for-them and-not yiṯgōḏaḏ and-not yiqqārēaḥ for-them

Grammar Details

• *mēṯû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they shall die
• *gəḏōlîm*: masculine plural adjective - great ones/important ones
• *qəṭannîm*: masculine plural adjective - small ones/insignificant ones
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land/earth
• *ha-zzōʾṯ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
• *yiqqāḇērû*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they shall be buried
• *yispəḏû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they shall lament/mourn
• *yiṯgōḏaḏ*: hithpael imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - one shall cut oneself
• *yiqqārēaḥ*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - one shall make himself bald

Word Meanings

• *yiṯgōḏaḏ*: cut oneself (as mourning ritual)
• *yiqqārēaḥ*: make oneself bald/shave head (as mourning ritual)

Referenced Verses

• Lev 19:28 : 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
• Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
• Jer 41:5 : 5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
• Jer 47:5 : 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
• Ezek 9:5-6 : 5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
• Jer 16:4 : 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
• Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Isa 24:2 : 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
• Jer 7:29 : 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
• Jer 13:13 : 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
• Jer 22:18-19 : 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
• Isa 9:14-17 : 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Amos 6:11 : 11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
• Rev 6:15 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.