Jeremiah 32:33

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּפְנ֥וּ אֵלַ֛י עֹ֖רֶף וְלֹ֣א פָנִ֑ים וְלַמֵּ֤ד אֹתָם֙ הַשְׁכֵּ֣ם וְלַמֵּ֔ד וְאֵינָ֥ם שֹׁמְעִ֖ים לָקַ֥חַת מוּסָֽר׃

Transliteration

And wayyipnû to me ʿōrep and not pānîm; and lammēd ʾōtām haškēm and lammēd, and they are not šōməʿîm lāqaḥat mûsār

Grammar Details

• *wayyipnû*: Qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person plural - 'and they turned'
• *ʿōrep*: masculine singular noun - 'back of neck/back'
• *pānîm*: masculine plural noun - 'face'
• *lammēd*: Piel infinitive absolute - 'teaching'
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'them'
• *haškēm*: Hiphil infinitive absolute - 'rising early'
• *šōməʿîm*: Qal participle, masculine plural - 'hearing/listening'
• *lāqaḥat*: Qal infinitive construct - 'to take/receive'
• *mûsār*: masculine singular noun - 'instruction/discipline'

Word Meanings

• *wayyipnû*: they turned/they faced
• *ʿōrep*: neck/back (idiom for turning away)
• *haškēm*: rising early (idiom for diligence/persistence)
• *mûsār*: instruction/discipline/correction

Referenced Verses

• Jer 2:27 : 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
• Jer 7:13 : 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
• 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 26:5 : 5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
• Jer 35:15 : 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
• Jer 7:24 : 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
• John 8:2 : 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
• Jer 18:17 : 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
• Jer 25:3-4 : 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened. 4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
• Jer 44:4 : 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
• Hos 11:2 : 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
• Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.