Jeremiah 1:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י מִצָּפוֹן֙ תִּפָּתַ֣ח הָרָעָ֔ה עַ֥ל כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֖י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

wa-yōʾmer YHWH ʾēlāy from-ṣāpôn tippātaḥ hā-rāʿāh upon all-yōšĕbê hā-ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*wa-yōʾmer*: waw-consecutive with Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*ʾēlāy*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to me
*ṣāpôn*: singular noun - north
*tippātaḥ*: Niphal imperfect 3rd feminine singular - will be opened/will break forth
*hā-rāʿāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the evil/disaster
*yōšĕbê*: Qal participle masculine plural construct - dwellers/inhabitants of
*hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land/earth

Word Meanings

*tippātaḥ*: will be opened/will break forth/will be let loose
*hā-rāʿāh*: the evil/the disaster/the calamity
*hā-ʾāreṣ*: the land/the earth/the country/the territory

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Referenced Verses

Isa 41:25 : 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Jer 4:6 : 6 Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer 10:22 : 22 The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
Jer 31:8 : 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall they return hither.
Jer 46:20 : 20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Jer 50:9 : 9 For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.
Jer 50:41 : 41 Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Ezek 1:4 : 4 And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
Jer 6:1 : 1 Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer 6:22 : 22 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

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