Jeremiah 51:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֶ֣בֶל הֵ֔מָּה מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים בְּעֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

Transliteration

hebel they, ma'aseh ta'tu'im; in 'et pequddatam they shall 'abad.

Grammar Details

• *hebel*: noun, masculine singular construct - vanity/emptiness/breath
• *hemmah*: pronoun, 3rd person masculine plural - they
• *ma'aseh*: noun, masculine singular construct - work/deed/action
• *ta'tu'im*: noun, masculine plural - mockery/delusion/error
• *be'et*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - in time of
• *pequddatam*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their visitation/punishment
• *yo'bedu*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will perish/be destroyed

Word Meanings

• *hebel*: vanity/emptiness/worthlessness/vapor/breath
• *ma'aseh ta'tu'im*: work of delusions/work of mockery/product of errors
• *pequddatam*: their visitation/their punishment/time of their accounting
• *'abad*: perish/be destroyed/be lost/vanish

Referenced Verses

• Exod 12:12 : 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
• Isa 19:1 : 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
• Isa 46:1 : 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
• Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
• Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
• Jer 18:15 : 15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
• Jer 43:12-13 : 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace. 13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
• Jer 46:25 : 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
• Jer 48:7 : 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
• Jer 50:2 : 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Zeph 2:11 : 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
• Acts 14:15 : 15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: