Jeremiah 15:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לוֹא־שָֽׁבוּ׃

Transliteration

wā-ʾezrēm with-mizreh in-šaʿărê hā-ʾāreṣ; šikkaltî ʾibbadtî ʾet-ʿammî, from-their-ways not-šābû.

Grammar Details

• *wā-ʾezrēm*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 1st common singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and I scattered them
• *mizreh*: noun common masculine singular - winnowing fork
• *šaʿărê*: noun common masculine plural construct - gates of
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: article + noun common feminine singular - the land/earth
• *šikkaltî*: piel perfect 1st common singular - I bereaved
• *ʾibbadtî*: piel perfect 1st common singular - I destroyed
• *ʾet-ʿammî*: direct object marker + noun common masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my people
• *šābû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they returned/repented

Word Meanings

• *wā-ʾezrēm*: and I scattered/winnowed/dispersed them
• *mizreh*: winnowing fork/fan/shovel
• *šaʿărê hā-ʾāreṣ*: gates of the land/entrances of the country
• *šikkaltî*: I bereaved/made childless/deprived of children
• *ʾibbadtî*: I destroyed/caused to perish
• *lōʾ-šābû*: they did not return/repent/turn back

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved and destroyed My people, yet they have not turned from their ways.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I have winnowed{H2219} them with a fan{H4214} in the gates{H8179} of the land;{H776} I have bereaved{H7921} [them] of children, I have destroyed{H6} my people;{H5971} they returned not from their ways.{H1870}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will fan{H2219}{(H8799)} them with a fan{H4214} in the gates{H8179} of the land{H776}; I will bereave{H7921}{(H8765)} them of children, I will destroy{H6}{(H8765)} my people{H5971}, since they return{H7725}{(H8804)} not from their ways{H1870}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I will scatre the abrode with the fanne on euery side of the londe: I will waist my people and destroye them, for they haue had no lust to turne from their owne wayes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I wil scatter them with the fanne in the gates of the earth I haue wasted, and destroyed my people, yet they would not returne from their wayes.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I haue scattred them abrode with the fanne of euery side of the land, I haue wasted my people and destroyed them, yet they haue had no lust to turne from their owne wayes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved `them' of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The LORD continued,“In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 9:13 : 13 For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 41:16 : 16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
• Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Jer 8:4-5 : 4 Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall and not rise? Shall he turn away and not return? 5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
• Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
• Jer 51:2 : 2 And I will send to Babylon winnowers, who shall winnow her and empty her land; for in the day of trouble, they shall be against her all around.
• Ps 1:4 : 4 The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
• Hos 9:12-17 : 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels. 16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
• Amos 4:10-12 : 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men I have slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD. 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD. 12 Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
• Zech 1:4 : 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.
• Ezek 24:25 : 25 Also, you, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that to which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
• Jer 4:11-12 : 11 At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, 12 Even a full wind from those places shall come to me: now I also will speak judgment against them.
• Deut 28:41 : 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
• Deut 28:53-56 : 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54 So that the man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
• Deut 28:18 : 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.
• Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand.
• Jer 9:21 : 21 For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
• Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.