Jeremiah 26:16

World English Bible (2000)

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ הַשָּׂרִים֙ וְכָל־הָעָ֔ם אֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְאֶל־הַנְּבִיאִ֑ים אֵין־לָאִ֤ישׁ הַזֶּה֙ מִשְׁפַּט־מָ֔וֶת כִּ֗י בְּשֵׁ֛ם יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ דִּבֶּ֥ר אֵלֵֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmərû the-śārîm and-all-the-ʿām to-the-kōhănîm and-to-the-nəḇiʾîm, Not-to-the-ʾîš the-this mišpaṭ-māweṯ, because in-name-of-Yəhwāh ʾĕlōhênû dibbēr to-us.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmərû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with waw-consecutive - they said
• *śārîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the officials
• *ʿām*: masculine singular with definite article - the people
• *kōhănîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the priests
• *nəḇiʾîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the prophets
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular with definite article - the man
• *mišpaṭ*: construct state, masculine singular - judgment of
• *māweṯ*: masculine singular - death
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: masculine plural with 1st person plural possessive suffix - our God
• *dibbēr*: Piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he spoke

Word Meanings

• *mišpaṭ-māweṯ*: death sentence/judgment of death

Referenced Verses

• Acts 5:34-39 : 34 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while. 35 He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do. 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing. 37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad. 38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"
• Acts 23:9 : 9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"
• Acts 23:29 : 29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
• Acts 25:25 : 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.
• Jer 36:19 : 19 Then the princes said to Baruch, Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.
• Jer 36:25 : 25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.
• Jer 38:7-9 : 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin), 8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying, 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city. 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies. 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords. Jeremiah did so. 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
• Matt 27:23-24 : 23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!" 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
• Matt 27:54 : 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."
• Luke 23:14-15 : 14 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. 15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
• Luke 23:41 : 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."
• Luke 23:47 : 47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."
• Acts 26:31-32 : 31 When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds." 32 Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
• Esth 4:14 : 14 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
• Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• Jer 26:11 : 11 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.