Jeremiah 29:26

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֞ה נְתָנְךָ֣ כֹהֵ֗ן תַּ֚חַת יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע הַכֹּהֵ֔ן לִֽהְי֤וֹת פְּקִדִים֙ בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה לְכָל־אִ֥ישׁ מְשֻׁגָּ֖ע וּמִתְנַבֵּ֑א וְנָתַתָּ֥ה אֹת֛וֹ אֶל־הַמַּהְפֶּ֖כֶת וְאֶל־הַצִּינֹֽק׃

Transliteration

YHWH nətānkā kōhēn taḥat Yəhôyādāʿ ha-kōhēn lihəyôt pəqidîm bêt YHWH lə-kol-ʾîš məšuggāʿ û-mitənabbēʾ wə-nātattâ ʾōtô ʾel-ha-mahpeket wə-ʾel-ha-ṣînōq

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *nətānkā*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - he made/appointed you
• *kōhēn*: noun, masculine singular - priest
• *taḥat*: preposition - in place of
• *Yəhôyādāʿ*: proper noun - Jehoiada
• *ha-kōhēn*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the priest
• *lihəyôt*: preposition + infinitive construct - to be
• *pəqidîm*: noun, masculine plural - overseers/officers
• *bêt*: construct noun, masculine singular - house of
• *lə-kol*: preposition + construct noun, masculine singular - for every
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *məšuggāʿ*: participle, masculine singular, Pual - madman/insane person
• *û-mitənabbēʾ*: conjunction + participle, masculine singular, Hithpael - and one prophesying
• *wə-nātattâ*: conjunction + perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you should put
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - him
• *ʾel*: preposition - into
• *ha-mahpeket*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the stocks/prison
• *wə-ʾel*: conjunction + preposition - and into
• *ha-ṣînōq*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the collar/neck-iron

Word Meanings

• *pəqidîm*: overseers/officers/guards
• *məšuggāʿ*: madman/insane person/one who acts crazy
• *mitənabbēʾ*: prophesying/acting as a prophet
• *mahpeket*: stocks/prison/place of torture
• *ṣînōq*: collar/neck-iron/pillory

Referenced Verses

• Jer 20:1-2 : 1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. 2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 9:11 : 11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
• Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
• John 10:20 : 20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
• Acts 26:24 : 24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
• Acts 16:24 : 24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
• Deut 13:1-5 : 1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
• Mark 3:21 : 21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
• John 8:53 : 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
• Zech 13:3-6 : 3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. 4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: 5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. 6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
• Matt 21:23 : 23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
• John 10:33 : 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
• Acts 4:1 : 1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
• Acts 5:18 : 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
• Acts 5:24 : 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
• 2 Kgs 11:15 : 15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 11:18 : 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
• 2 Chr 16:10 : 10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
• 2 Chr 18:26 : 26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
• Jer 29:27 : 27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
• Jer 38:6 : 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
• Jer 38:28 : 28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
• Acts 26:11 : 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
• 2 Cor 5:13-15 : 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• 2 Cor 11:33 : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.