Jeremiah 30:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שַׁאֲלוּ־נָ֣א וּרְא֔וּ אִם־יֹלֵ֖ד זָכָ֑ר מַדּוּעַ֩ רָאִ֨יתִי כָל־גֶּ֜בֶר יָדָ֤יו עַל־חֲלָצָיו֙ כַּיּ֣וֹלֵדָ֔ה וְנֶהֶפְכ֥וּ כָל־פָּנִ֖ים לְיֵרָקֽוֹן

Transliteration

šaʾălû-nāʾ and-rᵉʾû if-yōlēḏ zāḵār maddûaʿ rāʾîṯî all-geḇer yāḏāyw on-ḥălāṣāyw like-kayyôlēḏāh and-nehepeḵû all-pānîm to-yērāqôn

Grammar Details

*šaʾălû-nāʾ*: qal imperative masculine plural + particle of entreaty - ask, please
*rᵉʾû*: qal imperative masculine plural - see/look
*yōlēḏ*: qal active participle masculine singular - gives birth
*zāḵār*: masculine singular noun - male
*maddûaʿ*: interrogative adverb - why
*rāʾîṯî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have seen
*geḇer*: masculine singular noun - man/strong man
*yāḏāyw*: feminine dual noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his hands
*ḥălāṣāyw*: masculine dual noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his loins/sides
*kayyôlēḏāh*: preposition + definite article + qal active participle feminine singular - like the woman giving birth
*nehepeḵû*: niphal perfect 3rd person common plural - they are turned/changed
*pānîm*: masculine plural noun - faces
*yērāqôn*: masculine singular noun - paleness/jaundice

Word Meanings

*geḇer*: man/strong man/warrior
*ḥălāṣāyw*: loins/sides/thighs
*nehepeḵû*: turned/changed/transformed
*yērāqôn*: paleness/jaundice/greenness

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Referenced Verses

Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Joel 2:6 : 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Hos 13:13 : 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Jer 6:24 : 24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Ps 48:6 : 6 Fear took hold{H8804)} upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail{H8802)}.
Isa 21:3 : 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Jer 22:23 : 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jer 49:24 : 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jer 50:43 : 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Dan 5:6 : 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Isa 29:22 : 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
Isa 13:6-9 : 6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Mic 4:9-9 : 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
John 16:21-22 : 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Jer 13:21 : 21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?

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