Jeremiah 10:8

Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data

"But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities."

Word-by-Word Analysis

But they are

חָרַשׁ

chârash

H2790

to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad ...

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בָּעַר

bâʻar

H1197

to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish

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and

כְּסִיל

kᵉçîyl

H3684

properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly

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the

עֵקֶר

ʻêqer

H6133

figuratively, a transplanted person, i.e. naturalized citizen

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is a

לֶקַח

leqach

H3948

properly, something received, i.e. (mentally) instruction (whether on the part of the teacher or hearer); also (in an active and sinister sense) invei...

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of

הֶבֶל

hebel

H1892

emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb

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Key Terms in This Verse

stock H6133

עֵקֶר ʻêqer

figuratively, a transplanted person, i.e. naturalized citizen

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brutish H1197

בָּעַר bâʻar

to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish

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vanities H1892

הֶבֶל hebel

emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb

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altogether H2790

חָרַשׁ chârash

to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be sil...

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doctrine H3948

לֶקַח leqach

properly, something received, i.e. (mentally) instruction (whether on the part of the teacher or hearer); also (in an active and sinister sense) inveiglement

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foolish H3684

כְּסִיל kᵉçîyl

properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly

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Cross References

Jeremiah 10:14 cross-reference

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Zechariah 10:2 cross-reference

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no...

Habakkuk 2:18 cross-reference

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Psalm 115:8 cross-reference

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

Isaiah 41:29 cross-reference

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Psalm 135:18 cross-reference

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

Isaiah 44:19 cross-reference

And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh,...

Jeremiah 2:27 cross-reference

Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, a...

Jeremiah 4:22 cross-reference

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Hosea 4:12 cross-reference

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

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