Jeremiah 17:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֙ כְּעַרְעָ֣ר בָּֽעֲרָבָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א יִרְאֶ֖ה כִּי־יָ֣בוֹא ט֑וֹב וְשָׁכַ֤ן חֲרֵרִים֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר אֶ֥רֶץ מְלֵחָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א תֵשֵֽׁב׃

Transliteration

And-hāyâ like-ʿarʿār in-the-ʿărābâ and-not yirʾeh when-yābôʾ ṭôb and-šākan ḥărērîm in-the-midbār ʾereṣ mĕlēḥâ and-not tēšēb

Grammar Details

• *hāyâ*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will be
• *ʿarʿār*: masculine singular noun - juniper/shrub/destitute one
• *ʿărābâ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the desert plain
• *yirʾeh*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will see
• *yābôʾ*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it comes
• *ṭôb*: masculine singular adjective/noun - good
• *šākan*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will dwell
• *ḥărērîm*: masculine plural noun - parched places/heat
• *midbār*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the wilderness/desert
• *ʾereṣ*: construct state, feminine singular - land of
• *mĕlēḥâ*: feminine singular adjective - salt/barren
• *tēšēb*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - it will be inhabited

Word Meanings

• *ʿarʿār*: juniper/shrub/destitute one/naked one
• *ʿărābâ*: desert plain/wilderness/Arabah
• *ḥărērîm*: parched places/heat/burnt areas
• *mĕlēḥâ*: salt/barren/sterile

Referenced Verses

• Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
• Jer 48:6 : 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
• Job 20:17 : 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
• Job 39:6 : 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
• Ps 1:4 : 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
• Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring{H8800)} as the grass, and when all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity do flourish{H8686)}; it is that they shall be destroyed{H8736)} for ever:
• Ps 129:6-8 : 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
• Isa 1:30 : 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
• Judg 9:45 : 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
• 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• 2 Kgs 7:19-20 : 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. 20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
• Job 8:11-13 : 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
• Job 15:30-34 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
• Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
• Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.