Jeremiah 13:7
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
פְּרָת
Pᵉrâth
Perath (i.e. Euphrates), a river of the East
חָפַר
châphar
properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
חֵשֶׁב
chêsheb
a belt or strap (as being interlaced)
מָקוֹם
mâqôwm
properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
חֵשֶׁב
chêsheb
a belt or strap (as being interlaced)
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
סָכַן
çâkan
to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →סָכַן çâkan
to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary
Study H5532 →חָפַר châphar
properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
Study H2658 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →מָקוֹם mâqôwm
properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
Study H4725 →Cross References
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is goo...
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
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