Jeremiah 38:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לָצֵ֑את זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִרְאַ֖נִי יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

But-if-māʾēn you lāṣēʾt, this the-dābār which hirʾanî yĕhwāh.

Grammar Details

• *māʾēn*: Piel participle, masculine singular with conditional *ʾim* - if refusing
• *lāṣēʾt*: Qal infinitive construct with preposition *lĕ* - to go out
• *dābār*: masculine singular noun with article - the word/thing
• *hirʾanî*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular with 1st common singular suffix - he showed me
• *yĕhwāh*: divine name - YHWH

Word Meanings

• *māʾēn*: refusing/unwilling/declining
• *lāṣēʾt*: to go out/to surrender/to depart
• *dābār*: word/thing/matter
• *hirʾanî*: showed me/revealed to me/caused me to see
• *yĕhwāh*: LORD/Yahweh (divine name)

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word the LORD has shown me:

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thou refuse{H3986} to go forth,{H3318} this is the word{H1697} that Jehovah{H3068} hath showed{H7200} me:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thou refuse{H3986} to go forth{H3318}{(H8800)}, this is the word{H1697} that the LORD{H3068} hath shewed{H7200}{(H8689)} me:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But yf thou wilt not go forth, the LORDE hath tolde me this planely:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But if thou wilt refuse to go forth, this is the worde that the Lorde hath shewed me.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But yf thou wylt not go foorth, the Lorde hath tolde me this playnely,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And if thou art refusing to go forth, this `is' the thing that Jehovah hath shewn me:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that Jehovah hath showed me:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that Jehovah hath showed me:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:

• World English Bible (2000)

  But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But if you refuse to surrender, the LORD has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:

Referenced Verses

• Exod 10:3-4 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4 But if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory:
• Exod 16:28 : 28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
• Num 23:19-20 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? 20 Behold, I have received a commandment to bless, and he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
• Num 24:13 : 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak?
• Job 23:13 : 13 But he is of one mind, and who can change him? And whatever his soul desires, that he does.
• Job 34:33 : 33 Should it be according to your mind? He will repay it, whether you refuse or whether you choose, and not I; therefore speak what you know.
• Prov 1:24-31 : 24 Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand, yet no one paid attention; 25 But you have disregarded all my counsel, and would have none of my rebuke; 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes; 27 When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you. 28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD; 30 They would have none of my counsel and despised all my rebuke. 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Isa 1:19-20 : 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
• 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 15:19-21 : 19 Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then I will bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return to you; but return not you to them. 20 And I will make you to this people a fortified brass wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD. 21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
• Jer 26:15 : 15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.
• Ezek 2:4-5 : 4 For they are impudent children and hardhearted. I do send you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, (for they are a rebellious house,) will yet know that there has been a prophet among them.
• Ezek 2:7 : 7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse: for they are most rebellious.
• Ezek 3:17-19 : 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
• Acts 18:6 : 6 And when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, 'Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.'
• Acts 20:26-27 : 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven: