Jeremiah 47:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בָּ֤אָה קָרְחָה֙ אֶל־עַזָּ֔ה נִדְמְתָ֥ה אַשְׁקְל֖וֹן שְׁאֵרִ֣ית עִמְקָ֑ם עַד־מָתַ֖י תִּתְגּוֹדָֽדִי׃

Transliteration

Bāʾāh qārəḥāh unto-ʿAzzāh niḏməṯāh ʾAšqəlôn šəʾērîṯ ʿimqām until-when tiṯgôḏāḏî.

Grammar Details

*bāʾāh*: qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - has come
*qārəḥāh*: feminine singular noun - baldness
*ʾel-ʿAzzāh*: preposition + proper noun - unto Gaza
*niḏməṯāh*: niphal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - is silenced/destroyed
*ʾAšqəlôn*: proper noun - Ashkelon
*šəʾērîṯ*: feminine singular construct - remnant of
*ʿimqām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their valley
*ʿaḏ-māṯay*: preposition + interrogative - until when
*tiṯgôḏāḏî*: hithpael imperfect, 2nd feminine singular - you cut yourself

Word Meanings

*qārəḥāh*: baldness/mourning sign
*niḏməṯāh*: is silenced/is destroyed/is ruined
*šəʾērîṯ ʿimqām*: remnant of their valley/remaining lowland
*tiṯgôḏāḏî*: you cut yourself/you gash yourself (as mourning ritual)

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Referenced Verses

Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Jer 25:20 : 20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Jer 41:5 : 5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Mic 1:16 : 16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Zeph 2:4-7 : 4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. 7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
Zech 9:5-7 : 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. 6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
Mark 5:5 : 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Ezek 7:18 : 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Ezek 25:16 : 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Amos 1:6-8 : 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: 8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
Jer 47:1 : 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
Jer 47:4 : 4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
Lev 19:28 : 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Lev 21:5 : 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Judg 1:18 : 18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
1 Kgs 18:28 : 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Isa 15:2 : 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Jer 16:1 : 1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

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