Jeremiah 9:15
Old Testament • 16 words with Strong's data
"Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
צָבָא
tsâbâʼ
a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specif...
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...
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
רָעָה
râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frien...
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
לַעֲנָה
laʻănâh
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
לַעֲנָה laʻănâh
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
Study H3939 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
Study H7219 →רָעָה râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Study H7462 →צָבָא tsâbâʼ
a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
Study H6635 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →Cross References
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, becau...
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone fo...
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and dri...
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a ...
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
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