Jeremiah 6:26

Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data

"O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us."

Word-by-Word Analysis

O

בַּת

bath

H1323

a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)

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of my

עַם

ʻam

H5971

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

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חָגַר

châgar

H2296

to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)

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thee with

שַׂק

saq

H8242

properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain...

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and

פָּלַשׁ

pâlash

H6428

to roll (in dust)

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נֶפֶשׁ

nephesh

H5315

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...

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in

אֵפֶר

ʼêpher

H665

ashes

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עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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thee

אֵבֶל

ʼêbel

H60

lamentation

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as for an only

בֵּן

bên

H1121

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...

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most

מַר

mar

H4751

bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly

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קִינָה

qîynâh

H7015

a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)

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for the

שָׁדַד

shâdad

H7703

properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage

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shall

פִּתְאוֹם

pithʼôwm

H6597

instantly

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בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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upon us

Key Terms in This Verse

wallow H6428

פָּלַשׁ pâlash

to roll (in dust)

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spoiler H7703

שָׁדַד shâdad

properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage

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lamentation H7015

קִינָה qîynâh

a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)

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gird H2296

חָגַר châgar

to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)

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bitter H4751

מַר mar

bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly

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suddenly H6597

פִּתְאוֹם pithʼôwm

instantly

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ashes H665

אֵפֶר ʼêpher

ashes

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sackcloth H8242

שַׂק saq

properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)

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mourning H60

אֵבֶל ʼêbel

lamentation

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thyself H5315

נֶפֶשׁ nephesh

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:8 cross-reference

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

Zechariah 12:10 cross-reference

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for h...

Jeremiah 14:17 cross-reference

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very g...

Lamentations 4:3 cross-reference

Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

James 5:1 cross-reference

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Jeremiah 4:11 cross-reference

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

Lamentations 2:11 cross-reference

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o...

Isaiah 30:13 cross-reference

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

Lamentations 3:48 cross-reference

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 32:11 cross-reference

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

Lamentations 4:6 cross-reference

For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

Luke 7:12 cross-reference

Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

Jeremiah 15:8 cross-reference

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 ...

Jeremiah 8:19 cross-reference

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their gra...

Jeremiah 4:20 cross-reference

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

Isaiah 22:4 cross-reference

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 22:12 cross-reference

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Lamentations 1:2 cross-reference

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:16 cross-reference

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

Amos 8:10 cross-reference

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an onl...

Lamentations 4:10 cross-reference

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:10 cross-reference

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear th...

James 4:9 cross-reference

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Jeremiah 12:12 cross-reference

The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

Jeremiah 13:17 cross-reference

But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.

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