Jeremiah 46:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּם־שְׂכִרֶ֤יהָ בְקִרְבָּהּ֙ כְּעֶגְלֵ֣י מַרְבֵּ֔ק כִּֽי־גַם־הֵ֧מָּה הִפְנ֛וּ נָ֥סוּ יַחְדָּ֖יו לֹ֣א עָמָ֑דוּ כִּ֣י י֥וֹם אֵידָ֛ם בָּ֥א עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם עֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָֽם׃

Transliteration

Gam-śəḵireyhā in-qirbāh like-ʿeglê marbēq, kî-gam-hēmmāh hipnû nāsû yaḥdāw lōʾ ʿāmādû; kî yôm ʾêdām bāʾ upon-them, ʿēt pəquddātām.

Grammar Details

• *gam*: adverb - also/even
• *śəḵireyhā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her hired men
• *qirbāh*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix and preposition (בְּ) - in her midst
• *ʿeglê*: noun, masculine plural, construct state - calves of
• *marbēq*: noun, masculine singular - fattening/stall
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *hēmmāh*: 3rd masculine plural independent pronoun - they
• *hipnû*: hiphil perfect, 3rd common plural - they turned
• *nāsû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they fled
• *yaḥdāw*: adverb - together
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʿāmādû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they stood
• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular, construct state - day of
• *ʾêdām*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their calamity
• *bāʾ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has come
• *ʿēt*: noun, feminine singular, construct state - time of
• *pəquddātām*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their punishment

Word Meanings

• *śəḵireyhā*: her hired men/mercenaries
• *qirbāh*: her midst/among her
• *ʿeglê* *marbēq*: fatted calves/calves from the stall
• *hipnû*: they turned/turned back/turned away
• *nāsû*: they fled/ran away/escaped
• *ʿāmādû*: they stood/stood firm/withstood
• *ʾêdām*: their calamity/disaster/doom
• *pəquddātām*: their punishment/visitation/accounting

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 7:6 : 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
• Jer 46:5 : 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
• Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Ps 37:13 : 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth{H8804)} that his day is coming{H8799)}.
• 2 Sam 10:6 : 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
• Isa 34:7 : 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
• Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
• Amos 6:4 : 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
• Obad 1:13 : 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
• Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
• 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.
• Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
• Prov 15:17 : 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
• Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
• Ezek 27:10-11 : 10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
• Ezek 30:4-6 : 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 35:5 : 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
• Jer 46:9 : 9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
• Jer 46:15-16 : 15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them. 16 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.
• Jer 50:11 : 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;