Jeremiah 7:29
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם
Yᵉrûwshâlaim
Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
קִינָה
qîynâh
a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)
עֶלְיוֹן
ʻelyôwn
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
מָאַס
mâʼaç
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
עָזַב
ʻâzab
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
דּוֹר
dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Key Terms in This Verse
קִינָה qîynâh
a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)
Study H7015 →דּוֹר dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
Study H1755 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
Study H5945 →Cross References
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
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