Jeremiah 8:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Hosts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנִבְחַ֥ר מָ֙וֶת֙ מֵֽחַיִּ֔ים לְכֹ֗ל הַשְּׁאֵרִית֙ הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֔ים מִן־הַמִּשְׁפָּחָ֥ה הָֽרָעָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את בְּכָל־הַמְּקֹמ֤וֹת הַנִּשְׁאָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִדַּחְתִּ֣ים שָׁ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

And-shall be nibḥar māwet from-ḥayyîm to-kōl the-šᵊʾērît the-niš'ārîm from-the-mišpāḥāh the-rāʿāh the-zōʾt, in-all-the-mᵊqōmôt the-niš'ārîm which I hiddaḥtîm there, nᵊʾum YHWH ṣᵊbāʾôt.

Grammar Details

• *nibḥar*: niphal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - will be chosen
• *māwet*: noun - death
• *ḥayyîm*: plural noun - life
• *kōl*: construct state - all of
• *šᵊʾērît*: noun with definite article - the remnant/remainder
• *niš'ārîm*: niphal participle masculine plural with definite article - the ones remaining/left
• *mišpāḥāh*: noun with definite article - the family/clan
• *rāʿāh*: adjective feminine singular with definite article - the evil/wicked
• *zōʾt*: feminine demonstrative pronoun with definite article - this
• *mᵊqōmôt*: plural noun with definite article - the places
• *hiddaḥtîm*: hiphil perfect 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - I have driven/banished them
• *nᵊʾum*: construct state - utterance/declaration of
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ṣᵊbāʾôt*: plural noun - hosts/armies

Word Meanings

• *nibḥar*: chosen/selected/preferred
• *māwet*: death/dying
• *ḥayyîm*: life/living
• *šᵊʾērît*: remnant/remainder/survivors
• *niš'ārîm*: remaining/surviving/left over
• *mišpāḥāh*: family/clan/kindred
• *rāʿāh*: evil/wicked/harmful
• *mᵊqōmôt*: places/locations/sites
• *hiddaḥtîm*: driven/banished/scattered them
• *ṣᵊbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/celestial bodies

Referenced Verses

• Rev 9:6 : 6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
• Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones. 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.
• Jer 23:3 : 3 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
• Jer 23:8 : 8 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.
• Jer 29:14 : 14 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
• Deut 30:1 : 1 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
• Deut 30:4 : 4 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there will he bring you back:
• Dan 9:7 : 7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
• Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
• Rev 6:16 : 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
• Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad. 16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
• 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
• Job 3:20-22 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul, 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
• Jer 29:28 : 28 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?
• Jer 32:36-37 : 36 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
• Jer 40:12 : 12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.