Jeremiah 42:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י *התעתים **הִתְעֵיתֶם֮ בְּנַפְשֽׁוֹתֵיכֶם֒ כִּֽי־אַתֶּ֞ם שְׁלַחְתֶּ֣ם אֹתִ֗י אֶל־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִתְפַּלֵּ֣ל בַּעֲדֵ֔נוּ אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וּכְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יֹאמַ֜ר יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵ֛ינוּ כֵּ֥ן הַגֶּד־לָ֖נוּ וְעָשִֽׂינוּ׃

Transliteration

For you-hiṯʿêṯem in-nap̄šôṯêḵem, for-you šəlaḥtem [direct object marker]-me to-YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem lêʾmōr, "hiṯpallêl for-us to-YHWH ʾĕlōhênû, and-according-to-all which yōʾmar YHWH ʾĕlōhênû so haggeḏ-to-us and-we-will-ʿāśînû.

Grammar Details

*hiṯʿêṯem*: Hiphil perfect 2nd person masculine plural - you have deceived
*nap̄šôṯêḵem*: feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your souls/selves
*šəlaḥtem*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - you sent
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*ʾĕlōhêḵem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your God
*lêʾmōr*: Qal infinitive construct - saying
*hiṯpallêl*: Hithpael imperative masculine singular - pray
*ʾĕlōhênû*: masculine plural noun + 1st person plural suffix - our God
*yōʾmar*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will say
*haggeḏ*: Hiphil imperative masculine singular - tell
*ʿāśînû*: Qal perfect 1st person plural - we will do

Word Meanings

*hiṯʿêṯem*: you have deceived/led astray/erred
*nap̄šôṯêḵem*: your souls/selves/lives
*šəlaḥtem*: you sent/dispatched
*lêʾmōr*: saying/declaring
*hiṯpallêl*: pray/intercede/supplicate
*yōʾmar*: he will say/speak/command
*haggeḏ*: tell/declare/report
*ʿāśînû*: we will do/perform/act

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Referenced Verses

Num 16:38 : 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
Ps 65:3 : 3 Iniquities prevail{H8804)} against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away{H8762)}.
Jer 3:10 : 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jer 42:2 : 2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant;(for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
Ezek 14:3-4 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Matt 22:15-18 : 15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth , neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
Matt 22:35 : 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Gal 6:7 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Jas 1:22 : 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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