Jeremiah 2:22
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כִּי
kîy
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
כָּבַס
kâbaç
to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative
נֶתֶר
nether
mineral potash (so called from effervescing with acid)
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
בֹּר
bôr
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals
עוֹד
ʻôwd
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
שָׁמַר
shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
Key Terms in This Verse
בֹּר bôr
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals
Study H1253 →שָׁמַר shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
Study H8104 →כָּבַס kâbaç
to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative
Study H3526 →כִּי kîy
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
Study H3588 →עוֹד ʻôwd
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
Study H5750 →Cross References
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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