Jeremiah 51:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חָדְלוּ֩ גִבּוֹרֵ֨י בָבֶ֜ל לְהִלָּחֵ֗ם יָֽשְׁבוּ֙ בַּמְּצָד֔וֹת נָשְׁתָ֥ה גְבוּרָתָ֖ם הָי֣וּ לְנָשִׁ֑ים הִצִּ֥יתוּ מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ בְרִיחֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

Chadlu gibborey Babel le-hillachem, yashvu ba-metsadot, nashtah geburatam, hayu le-nashim; hitsitu mishkenoteyha, nishberu bericheyha.

Grammar Details

*chadlu*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they ceased/refrained
*gibborey*: noun, masculine plural construct - mighty men of
*Babel*: proper noun - Babylon
*le-hillachem*: preposition + verb, Niphal infinitive construct - to fight
*yashvu*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they remain/dwell
*ba-metsadot*: preposition + article + noun, feminine plural - in the strongholds
*nashtah*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it dried up/failed
*geburatam*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their might
*hayu*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they became
*le-nashim*: preposition + noun, feminine plural - like women
*hitsitu*: verb, Hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural - they set on fire
*mishkenoteyha*: noun, feminine plural + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her dwellings
*nishberu*: verb, Niphal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they are broken
*bericheyha*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her bars/bolts

Word Meanings

*chadal*: cease/refrain/leave off/forbear
*gibborim*: mighty men/warriors/heroes
*yashav ba-metsadot*: remain in strongholds/dwell in fortresses
*nashtah*: dry up/fail/be exhausted
*geburah*: might/strength/power
*hayu le-nashim*: became like women/became weak
*hitsit*: set on fire/kindle/burn
*mishkenot*: dwellings/habitations/tabernacles
*nishberu*: are broken/are shattered
*berichim*: bars/bolts/locks

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Referenced Verses

Nah 3:13 : 13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.
Lam 2:9 : 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.
Isa 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: 8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.
Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.
Jer 50:36-37 : 36 A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
Ps 76:5 : 5 The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands.
Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
Amos 1:5 : 5 And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.
Rev 18:10 : 10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Jer 48:41 : 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Ps 107:16 : 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Ps 147:13 : 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.
Jer 51:32 : 32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Jer 51:31-33
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31One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
32and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
33For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
Jer 51:53-58
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53Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.
54The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
55For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:
56for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
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Jer 50:30
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30Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.
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42They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
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29And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
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22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
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47Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Jer 51:41
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35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
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37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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