Jeremiah 25:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׁת֕וּ וְהִֽתְגֹּֽעֲשׁ֖וּ וְהִתְהֹלָ֑לוּ מִפְּנֵ֣י הַחֶ֔רֶב אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י שֹׁלֵ֖חַ בֵּינֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

And šātû and hitgōʿăšû and hithōlālû from before the ḥereb which ʾānōḵî šōlēaḥ among them.

Grammar Details

• *šātû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person plural with waw consecutive - and they will drink
• *hitgōʿăšû*: Hithpael perfect, 3rd person plural with waw consecutive - and they will reel/stagger
• *hithōlālû*: Hithpael perfect, 3rd person plural with waw consecutive - and they will act madly/be mad
• *ḥereb*: feminine singular noun with definite article - sword
• *ʾānōḵî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *šōlēaḥ*: Qal participle, masculine singular - sending

Word Meanings

• *hitgōʿăšû*: reel/stagger/be tossed to and fro
• *hithōlālû*: act madly/be insane/act like fools
• *ḥereb*: sword/warfare/destruction
• *šōlēaḥ*: sending/dispatching/letting loose

Referenced Verses

• Nah 3:11 : 11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
• Jer 51:7 : 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
• Jer 51:39 : 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
• Lam 3:15 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
• Lam 4:21 : 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
• Ezek 23:32-34 : 32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
• Rev 14:8 : 8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
• Rev 14:10 : 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
• Rev 16:9-9 : 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. 10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
• Rev 18:3 : 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
• Jer 25:27 : 27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.