Jeremiah 23:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־גַם־נָבִיא גַם־כֹּהֵן חָנֵפוּ גַּם־בְּבֵיתִי מָצָאתִי רָעָתָם נְאֻם־יְהוָה

Transliteration

Kî-gam-nābîʾ gam-kōhēn ḥānēp̄û gam-bəbêtî māṣāʾtî rāʿātām nəʾum-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *Kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *gam*: particle - also/even
• *nābîʾ*: masculine singular noun - prophet
• *kōhēn*: masculine singular noun - priest
• *ḥānēp̄û*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - are profane/polluted
• *bəbêtî*: preposition + preposition + masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - in my house
• *māṣāʾtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have found
• *rāʿātām*: feminine singular noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their evil/wickedness
• *nəʾum*: construct state - declaration/utterance of
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD

Word Meanings

• *ḥānēp̄û*: are profane/are polluted/are godless/are hypocritical
• *rāʿātām*: their evil/their wickedness/their wrongdoing

Referenced Verses

• Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
• Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
• Ezek 8:16 : 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
• Jer 32:34 : 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
• Jer 7:10-11 : 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
• Jer 7:30 : 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
• Jer 8:10 : 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
• Ezek 23:39 : 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
• Jer 11:15 : 15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
• Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
• 2 Chr 33:5 : 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
• 2 Chr 33:7 : 7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
• 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
• Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
• Ezek 7:20 : 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
• Ezek 8:5-6 : 5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
• Ezek 8:11 : 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
• Ezek 22:25-26 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
• Matt 21:12-13 : 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.