Jeremiah 18:21
Old Testament • 23 words with Strong's data
"Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
נָצַל
nâtsal
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
שָׁפַךְ
shâphak
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc....
דָּם
dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
חֶרֶב
chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
שָׁכֹל
shâkôl
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh
a widow; also a desolate place
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
מָוֶת
mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
חָלָל
châlâl
pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted
חֶרֶב
chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
מִלְחָמָה
milchâmâh
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁכֹל shâkôl
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
Study H7921 →שָׁפַךְ shâphak
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out
Study H8210 →מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
Study H4421 →בֵּן bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Study H1121 →Cross References
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto you...
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors ...
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that s...
But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
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