Jeremiah 18:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ק֥וּם וְיָרַדְתָּ֖ בֵּ֣ית הַיּוֹצֵ֑ר וְשָׁ֖מָּה אַשְׁמִֽיעֲךָ֥ אֶת־דְּבָרָֽי׃

Transliteration

Qûm and yāradtā to house of the yôṣēr, and there ʾašmîaʿakā ʾet-dĕbāray

Grammar Details

• *Qûm*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - arise/stand
• *yāradtā*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - go down/descend
• *yôṣēr*: noun, masculine singular, definite - potter/former
• *ʾašmîaʿakā*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I will cause you to hear
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *dĕbāray*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my words

Word Meanings

• *Qûm*: arise/get up/stand
• *yāradtā*: you shall go down/descend
• *yôṣēr*: potter/former/creator (one who forms)
• *ʾašmîaʿakā*: I will cause you to hear/I will make you hear

Referenced Verses

• Jer 19:1-2 : 1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; 2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
• Heb 1:1 : 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
• Isa 20:2 : 2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
• Jer 13:1 : 1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
• Jer 23:22 : 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
• Ezek 4:1-5 : 1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
• Amos 7:7 : 7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
• Acts 9:6 : 6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.