Jeremiah 5:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ הָיָ֔ה לֵ֖ב סוֹרֵ֣ר וּמוֹרֶ֑ה סָ֖רוּ וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ׃

Transliteration

And to hā'ām hazzeh is hāyâ lēb sôrēr and môreh; they sārû and they wayyēlēkû.

Grammar Details

*wə*: conjunction - and
*lā*: preposition + article - to the
*'ām*: noun, masculine singular - people
*hazzeh*: article + demonstrative pronoun - this
*hāyâ*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - it was/became
*lēb*: noun, masculine singular - heart
*sôrēr*: participle, masculine singular, qal - stubborn/rebellious
*môreh*: participle, masculine singular, qal - rebellious
*sārû*: perfect, 3rd plural - they turned aside
*wa*: conjunction - and
*yēlēkû*: imperfect, 3rd plural - they went/walked

Word Meanings

*lēb sôrēr*: stubborn heart/rebellious heart/defiant heart
*môreh*: rebellious/defiant/disobedient
*sārû wayyēlēkû*: they turned aside and went away/departed and left

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Referenced Verses

Jer 6:28 : 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Deut 21:18 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isa 31:6 : 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Jer 5:5 : 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Hos 4:8 : 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Heb 3:12 : 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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