Jeremiah 20:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

Who not-môtətanî from rāḥem, and wattəhî-to me ʾimmî qibrî, and raḥmāh hărat ʿôlām.

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/because
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*môtətanî*: polel perfect, 3rd masculine singular with 1st common singular suffix - he killed me
*rāḥem*: noun, masculine singular with preposition - from the womb
*wattəhî*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she would be
*lî*: preposition with 1st common singular suffix - to me
*ʾimmî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st common singular suffix - my mother
*qibrî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st common singular suffix - my grave
*raḥmāh*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her womb
*hărat*: adjective, feminine singular construct - pregnant with
*ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - forever/eternity

Word Meanings

*môtətanî*: he killed me/put me to death
*rāḥem*: womb/uterus
*qibrî*: my grave/tomb
*hărat ʿôlām*: eternally pregnant/perpetually with child/always pregnant

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Job 3:16 : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

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