Jeremiah 5:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־אָמְר֣וּ בִלְבָבָ֗ם נִ֤ירָא נָא֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ הַנֹּתֵ֗ן גֶּ֛שֶׁם יוֹרֶ֥ה וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ בְּעִתּ֑וֹ שְׁבֻע֛וֹת חֻקּ֥וֹת קָצִ֖יר יִשְׁמָר־לָֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

And not-they 'āmərû in their bilbābām, "Let us nîrā' nā' 'et-YHWH our 'ĕlōhênû, the one hannōtēn gešem yôreh and malqôš in its 'ittô, šəbu'ôt ḥuqqôt qāṣîr he yišmār-to us."

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *lō'*: negative particle - not
• *'āmərû*: perfect, 3rd plural - they said
• *bi*: preposition - in
• *lbābām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their heart
• *nîrā'*: imperfect, 1st plural, jussive - let us fear
• *nā'*: particle - please (politeness marker)
• *'et*: direct object marker
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh
• *'ĕlōhênû*: noun, masculine plural + 1st plural suffix - our God
• *ha*: article - the
• *nōtēn*: participle, masculine singular - giving
• *gešem*: noun, masculine singular - rain
• *yôreh*: adjective, masculine singular - early (rain)
• *malqôš*: noun, masculine singular - late rain
• *bə*: preposition - in
• *'ittô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its time
• *šəbu'ôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - weeks of
• *ḥuqqôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - ordinances of
• *qāṣîr*: noun, masculine singular - harvest
• *yišmār*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will keep
• *lānû*: preposition + 1st plural suffix - for us

Word Meanings

• *nîrā'*: let us fear/revere/be afraid of
• *hannōtēn*: the one giving/providing/granting
• *gešem*: rain/shower
• *yôreh*: early rain (autumn)
• *malqôš*: late rain (spring)
• *šəbu'ôt ḥuqqôt qāṣîr*: appointed weeks of harvest/designated seasons for harvest

Referenced Verses

• Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Ps 147:8 : 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
• Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
• Acts 14:17 : 17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
• Job 5:10 : 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
• Job 36:27-28 : 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
• Job 38:37 : 37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
• Isa 64:7 : 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
• Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
• Deut 11:13-14 : 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
• Deut 28:12 : 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
• Jer 50:5 : 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Amos 4:7 : 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
• Zech 10:1 : 1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
• Rev 11:6 : 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
• Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.