Jeremiah 2:2

Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data

"Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown."

Word-by-Word Analysis

יָלַךְ

yâlak

H3212

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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and

קָרָא

qârâʼ

H7121

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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in the

אֹזֶן

ʼôzen

H241

broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)

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of

יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם

Yᵉrûwshâlaim

H3389

Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine

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אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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כֵּן

kên

H3652

so

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אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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I

זָכַר

zâkar

H2142

properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male

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thee the

חֵסֵד

chêçêd

H2617

kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty

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of thy

נָעוּר

nâʻûwr

H5271

(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)

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the

אָהַב

ʼâhab

H157

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

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of thine

English grammatical function word ('espousals'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivale...

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when thou

הָלַךְ

hâlak

H1980

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

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אַחַר

ʼachar

H310

properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)

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me in the

מִדְבָּר

midbâr

H4057

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

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in a

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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that was not

זָרַע

zâraʻ

H2232

to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify

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Key Terms in This Verse

espousals GRAM

English grammatical function word ('espousals'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are ...

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wentest H1980

הָלַךְ hâlak

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

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sown H2232

זָרַע zâraʻ

to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify

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kindness H2617

חֵסֵד chêçêd

kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty

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youth H5271

נָעוּר nâʻûwr

(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)

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remember H2142

זָכַר zâkar

properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male

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ears H241

אֹזֶן ʼôzen

broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)

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cry H7121

קָרָא qârâʼ

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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wilderness H4057

מִדְבָּר midbâr

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

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love H157

אָהַב ʼâhab

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

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Cross References

Ezekiel 16:60 cross-reference

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 16:8 cross-reference

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant ...

Jeremiah 11:6 cross-reference

Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

Hosea 2:15 cross-reference

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of ...

Jeremiah 7:2 cross-reference

Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

Deuteronomy 2:7 cross-reference

For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked noth...

Deuteronomy 8:2 cross-reference

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep ...

Jeremiah 2:6 cross-reference

Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shado...

Matthew 11:15 cross-reference

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Ezekiel 23:8 cross-reference

Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

Ezekiel 16:22 cross-reference

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Exodus 16:8 cross-reference

And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: an...

Isaiah 58:1 cross-reference

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Luke 12:13 cross-reference

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

Jonah 1:2 cross-reference

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Proverbs 1:20 cross-reference

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Jeremiah 19:2 cross-reference

And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

Ezekiel 23:19 cross-reference

Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 8:1 cross-reference

Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

Ezekiel 23:3 cross-reference

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Song of Solomon 3:11 cross-reference

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

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