Jeremiah 37:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְצַוֶּ֞ה הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּ וַיַּפְקִ֣דוּ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָהוּ֮ בַּחֲצַ֣ר הַמַּטָּרָה֒ וְנָתֹן֩ ל֨וֹ כִכַּר־לֶ֤חֶם לַיּוֹם֙ מִח֣וּץ הָאֹפִ֔ים עַד־תֹּ֥ם כָּל־הַלֶּ֖חֶם מִן־הָעִ֑יר וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ בַּחֲצַ֖ר הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-wayṣawweh the-meleḵ Ṣidqiyyāhû and-wayyap̄qiḏû ʾet-Yirməyāhû in-ḥăṣar the-maṭṭārāh and-giving to-him kikkar-leḥem for-the-yôm from-ḥûṣ the-ʾōp̄îm until-tōm all-the-leḥem from-the-ʿîr and-wayyēšeḇ Yirməyāhû in-ḥăṣar the-maṭṭārāh.

Grammar Details

• *wayṣawweh*: waw-consecutive + Piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he commanded
• *meleḵ*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the king
• *Ṣidqiyyāhû*: proper noun - Zedekiah
• *wayyap̄qiḏû*: waw-consecutive + Hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they committed
• *Yirməyāhû*: proper noun - Jeremiah
• *ḥăṣar*: masculine singular construct - court of
• *maṭṭārāh*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the guard
• *nātōn*: Qal infinitive absolute - giving
• *kikkar*: masculine singular construct - loaf of
• *leḥem*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the bread
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the day
• *ḥûṣ*: masculine singular construct - street of
• *ʾōp̄îm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the bakers
• *tōm*: Qal infinitive construct - finishing/being consumed
• *ʿîr*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the city
• *wayyēšeḇ*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he remained

Word Meanings

• *ḥăṣar* the-*maṭṭārāh*: court of the prison/courtyard of the guard
• *kikkar*-*leḥem*: loaf of bread/round of bread
• *ḥûṣ* the-*ʾōp̄îm*: bakers' street/bakers' quarter

Referenced Verses

• Jer 38:13 : 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
• 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.
• Jer 38:9 : 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
• Jer 32:2 : 2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
• Jer 52:6 : 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Isa 33:16 : 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
• 2 Kgs 25:3 : 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Job 5:20 : 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
• Ps 33:18-19 : 18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; 19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
• Ps 34:9-9 : 9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
• Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in the LORD, and do{H8798)} good; so shalt thou dwell{H8798)} in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed{H8798)}.
• Ps 37:19 : 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied{H8799)}.
• Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
• Jer 39:14-15 : 14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. 15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
• Jer 32:8 : 8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
• Deut 28:52-57 : 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
• 1 Kgs 17:4-6 : 4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
• Lam 2:11-12 : 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
• Lam 2:19-20 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
• Lam 4:4-5 : 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
• Lam 4:9-9 : 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
• Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Acts 12:5 : 5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
• Acts 24:27 : 27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
• Acts 28:16 : 16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
• Acts 28:30 : 30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
• Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
• Eph 6:20 : 20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
• 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.