Jeremiah 46:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִרְבָּ֖ה כּוֹשֵׁ֑ל גַּם־נָפַ֞ל אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֗הוּ וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ ק֣וּמָה ׀ וְנָשֻׁ֣בָה אֶל־עַמֵּ֗נוּ וְאֶל־אֶ֙רֶץ֙ מֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֔נוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י חֶ֥רֶב הַיּוֹנָֽה׃

Transliteration

Hirbāh kôšēl, gam-nāpal ʾîš to-rēʿēhû; wayyōʾmərû: 'qûmāh wə-nāšuḇāh to-ʿammēnû and-to-ʾereṣ môladtēnû from-pənê ḥereḇ the-yônāh.'

Grammar Details

*hirbāh*: hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he multiplied
*kôšēl*: qal participle, masculine singular - stumbling/staggering
*gam*: adverb - also/even
*nāpal*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - fell
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
*rēʿēhû*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his neighbor
*wayyōʾmərû*: consecutive waw + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they said
*qûmāh*: qal imperative, masculine singular with paragogic heh - arise
*wə*-*nāšuḇāh*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 1st common plural cohortative - and let us return
*ʿammēnû*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st common plural suffix - our people
*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular, construct state - land of
*môladtēnû*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st common plural suffix - our birth/native country
*pənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - face of
*ḥereḇ*: noun, feminine singular - sword
*yônāh*: adjective, feminine singular with definite article - the oppressing

Word Meanings

*hirbāh*: multiplied/increased/made many
*kôšēl*: stumbling/staggering/tottering
*nāpal*: fell/fell down/collapsed
*qûmāh*: arise/stand up/get up
*nāšuḇāh*: let us return/let us go back
*môladtēnû*: our birth/native country/homeland
*yônāh*: oppressing/dove (possibly a wordplay)/fierce

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Referenced Verses

Lev 26:36-37 : 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
Jer 51:9 : 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jer 46:6 : 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
Jer 46:21 : 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
Jer 50:16 : 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

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