Jeremiah 7:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֠י לֹֽא־דִבַּ֤רְתִּי אֶת־אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ וְלֹ֣א צִוִּיתִ֔ים בְּי֛וֹם *הוציא **הוֹצִיאִ֥י אוֹתָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם עַל־דִּבְרֵ֥י עוֹלָ֖ה וָזָֽבַח׃

Transliteration

For not-dibbartî ʾet-ʾăbôtêkem and-not-ṣiwwîtîm in-yôm hôṣîʾî them from-ʾereṣ miṣrāyim concerning-dibrê ʿôlāh wāzābaḥ.

Grammar Details

• *dibbartî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I spoke
• *ʾet-ʾăbôtêkem*: direct object marker + masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - with your fathers
• *ṣiwwîtîm*: piel perfect 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - I commanded them
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun construct - day of
• *hôṣîʾî*: hiphil infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix - my bringing out
• *ʾereṣ*: feminine singular noun construct - land of
• *miṣrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *dibrê*: masculine plural construct of *dābār* - matters of
• *ʿôlāh*: feminine singular noun - burnt offering
• *wāzābaḥ*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and sacrifice

Word Meanings

• *dibbartî*: I spoke/I talked/I declared
• *ṣiwwîtîm*: I commanded them/I ordered them/I instructed them
• *hôṣîʾî*: my bringing out/my leading out/my causing to go out
• *dibrê*: matters of/words of/things of
• *ʿôlāh*: burnt offering/whole burnt sacrifice
• *zābaḥ*: sacrifice/slaughtered offering

Referenced Verses

• Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
• Ps 40:6 : 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire{H8804)}; mine ears hast thou opened{H8804)}: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required{H8804)}.
• Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not reprove{H8686)} thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take{H8799)} no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know{H8804)} all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry{H8799)}, I would not tell{H8799)} thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat{H8799)} the flesh of bulls, or drink{H8799)} the blood of goats? 14 Offer{H8798)} unto God thanksgiving; and pay{H8761)} thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call{H8798)} upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver{H8762)} thee, and thou shalt glorify{H8762)} me. 16 But unto the wicked God saith{H8804)}, What hast thou to do to declare{H8763)} my statutes, or that thou shouldest take{H8799)} my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest{H8804)} instruction, and castest{H8686)} my words behind thee.
• Ps 51:16-17 : 16 For thou desirest{H8799)} not sacrifice; else would I give{H8799)} it: thou delightest{H8799)} not in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken{H8737)} spirit: a broken{H8737)} and a contrite{H8737)} heart, O God, thou wilt not despise{H8799)}.
• Matt 9:13 : 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Mark 12:33 : 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.