239) Looking for Jeremiah

 

239) Looking for Jeremiah

Jeremiah 9:2

If only

מִֽי־ (mî-)

Interrogative

Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

I had a traveler’s

אֹֽרְחִ֔ים (’ō·rə·ḥîm)

Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural

Strong's 732: To wander, journey, go

lodge

מְלוֹן֙ (mə·lō·wn)

Noun - masculine singular construct

Strong's 4411: A lodgment, caravanserai, encampment

in the wilderness,

בַמִּדְבָּ֗ר (ḇam·miḏ·bār)

Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular

Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

I would abandon

וְאֶֽעֶזְבָה֙ (wə·’e·‘ez·ḇāh)

Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular

Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

my people

עַמִּ֔י (‘am·mî)

Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular

Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

and depart

וְאֵלְכָ֖ה (wə·’ê·lə·ḵāh)

Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular

Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

from them,

מֵֽאִתָּ֑ם (mê·’it·tām)

Preposition-m | Direct object marker | third person masculine plural

Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

for

כִּ֤י (kî)

Conjunction

Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they are all

כֻלָּם֙ (ḵul·lām)

Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural

Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

adulterers,

מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים (mə·nā·’ă·p̄îm)

Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural

Strong's 5003: To commit adultery, to apostatize

a crowd

עֲצֶ֖רֶת (‘ă·ṣe·reṯ)

Noun - feminine singular construct

Strong's 6116: An assembly, on a, festival, holiday

of faithless people.

בֹּגְדִֽים׃ (bō·ḡə·ḏîm)

Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural

Strong's 898: To cover, to act covertly, to pillage

- They are all adulterers!

- They are a crowd of faithless people!

- Is that so difficult to understand?

- It should be so simple to understand!

- Unwillingness!