Jeremiah 25:4
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
שָׁלַח
shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
נָבִיא
nâbîyʼ
a prophet or (generally) inspired man
שָׁכַם
shâkam
literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning
שָׁלַח
shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
נָטָה
nâṭâh
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
אֹזֶן
ʼôzen
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָטָה nâṭâh
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
Study H5186 →שָׁלַח shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Study H7971 →שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →שָׁכַם shâkam
literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning
Study H7925 →שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →שָׁלַח shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Study H7971 →Cross References
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising e...
To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounce...
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that...
Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
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