Jeremiah 8:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי֩ הִנְנִ֨י מְשַׁלֵּ֜חַ בָּכֶ֗ם נְחָשִׁים֙ צִפְעֹנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵין־לָהֶ֖ם לָ֑חַשׁ וְנִשְּׁכ֥וּ אֶתְכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

For behold I am mᵊšallēaḥ among-you nᵊḥāšîm ṣipᵊʿōnîm, which there-is-not-to-them lāḥaš; and-they shall wᵊniššᵊkû ʾetkemm nᵊʾum-YHWH.

Grammar Details

*mᵊšallēaḥ*: piel participle masculine singular - sending
*nᵊḥāšîm*: plural noun - serpents/snakes
*ṣipᵊʿōnîm*: plural noun - vipers/adders
*lāḥaš*: noun - charm/spell/incantation
*wᵊniššᵊkû*: piel perfect 3rd person plural with waw conjunction - and they will bite
*ʾetkemm*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
*nᵊʾum*: construct state - utterance/declaration of
*YHWH*: divine name

Word Meanings

*mᵊšallēaḥ*: sending/dispatching/letting loose
*nᵊḥāšîm*: serpents/snakes
*ṣipᵊʿōnîm*: vipers/adders/venomous snakes
*lāḥaš*: charm/spell/incantation/whisper
*wᵊniššᵊkû*: will bite/sting

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:24 : 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth{H8686)} her ear; 5 Which will not hearken{H8799)} to the voice of charmers{H8764)}, charming {H8802)} never so wisely{H8794)}.
Eccl 10:11 : 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Num 21:6 : 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Isa 14:29 : 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3 : 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Rev 9:19 : 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

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Deut 32:24
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24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Amos 9:3-4
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3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
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Amos 5:19
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Amos 4:10
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