Jeremiah 5:23
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
סָרַר
çârar
to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory
מְרִי
mᵉrîy
bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) rebellion; concretely, bitter, or rebellious
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
מְרִי mᵉrîy
bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) rebellion; concretely, bitter, or rebellious
Study H4805 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →לֵב lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Study H3820 →עַם ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Study H5971 →Cross References
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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