Jeremiah 1
5 a. set you apart
5 b. appointed
11 c. Lit. rod
12 d. Lit. watching
Jeremiah 2
2 a. followed
5 b. vanities or futilities
9 c. contend with
10 d. Heb. Kittim, representatative of western cultures
10 e. In northern Arabian desert, representative of eastern cultures
16 f. Memphis in ancient Egypt
16 g. Or grazed
18 h. The Euphrates
19 i. dread
20 j. Kt. serve
22 k. stained
23 l. defiled
28 m. Or evil
31 n. have dominion
34 o. digging
Jeremiah 3
2 a. Kt. been violated
13 b. Lit. ways
17 c. walk after the stubbornness or imagination
20 d. Lit. companion
25 e. disgrace
Jeremiah 4
2 a. justice
3 b. untilled
6 c. banner
10 d. Lit. soul
15 e. Or wickedness
21 f. banner
22 g. foolish
31 h. childbirth
31 i. faint
Jeremiah 5
1 a. justice
10 b. completely destroy
12 c. disaster
18 d. completely destroy
21 e. Lit. heart
28 f. Or pass over or overlook
Jeremiah 6
7 a. gushes
7 b. sickness
14 c. Lit. crushing
14 d. Superficially
24 e. childbirth
Jeremiah 7
5 a. justice
24 b. walked in
24 c. stubbornness or imagination
24 d. Lit. they were
30 e. defile
Jeremiah 8
3 a. remnant
11 b. Superficially
13 c. Or take them away
14 d. Bitter or poisonous water
Jeremiah 9
4 a. friend
7 b. test
8 c. Inwardly he
8 d. sets his ambush
10 e. Or pastures
14 f. stubbornness or imagination
15 g. Bitter or poisonous water
21 h. Lit. from outside
21 i. Lit. from the square
24 j. justice
Jeremiah 10
3 a. Lit. vanity
8 b. vain teaching
13 c. Or noise
17 d. Or you who dwell under siege
Jeremiah 11
5 a. Heb. Amen
8 b. walked in the stubbornness or imagination
11 c. Lit. go out
20 d. Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
Jeremiah 12
2 a. Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
5 b. Or thicket
6 c. Or abundantly
6 d. Lit. good
9 e. inheritance
10 f. Lit. shepherds or pastors
10 g. desired portion of land
13 h. Or strained
Jeremiah 13
1 a. Lit. upon your loins
2 b. waistband
4 c. waistband
4 d. Lit. upon your loins
4 e. Heb. Perath
7 f. waistband
10 g. walk in the stubbornness or imagination
14 h. Lit. a man against his brother
21 i. childbirth
22 j. Lit. suffer violence
Jeremiah 14
5 a. abandoned her young
13 b. true
14 c. Telling the future by signs and omens
Jeremiah 15
1 a. Lit. soul was not toward
6 b. tired
10 c. Or land
14 d. So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr., Tg. cause you to serve (cf. 17:4)
15 e. attend to
18 f. Or cannot be trusted
Jeremiah 16
9 a. rejoicing
12 b. walks after the stubbornness or imagination
Jeremiah 17
2 a. Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
5 b. Lit. arm
8 c. Qr., Tg. see
9 d. Or incurably sick
10 e. Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
11 f. Sits on eggs
18 g. Lit. crush
23 h. Were stubborn
26 i. Heb. shephelah
26 j. Heb. Negev
Jeremiah 18
3 a. Potter’s wheel
4 b. was making
4 c. ruined
12 d. Lit. do
12 e. stubbornness or imagination
14 f. forsake
17 g. So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT look them in
20 h. concerning
Jeremiah 19
11 a. restored
Jeremiah 20
3 a. Lit. Fear on Every Side
7 b. enticed or persuaded
7 c. Lit. a laughingstock all the day
10 d. slandering
12 e. Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
18 f. toil
Jeremiah 21
2 a. Heb. Nebuchadrezzar, and so elsewhere in the book
4 b. Or Babylonians, and so elsewhere in the book
9 c. Lit. falls away to
12 d. Dispense justice
13 e. dweller
14 f. deeds
Jeremiah 22
3 a. Dispense justice
5 b. Obey
11 c. Or Jehoahaz
13 d. Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers
14 e. Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers
16 f. Defended
22 g. Lit. shepherds
23 h. childbirth
24 i. Or Jeconiah or Jehoiachin
24 j. signet ring
25 k. Or Babylonians
28 l. See note at v. 24
Jeremiah 23
5 a. act wisely
5 b. justice
5 c. land
6 d. Heb. YHWH Tsidkenu
13 e. Lit. distastefulness
15 f. Or Pollution
17 g. stubbornness or imagination
33 h. burden, prophecy
33 i. LXX, Tg., Vg. ‘You are the burden.’
34 j. burden, prophecy
36 k. burden, prophecy
38 l. burden, prophecy
Jeremiah 24
5 a. regard
10 b. destroyed
Jeremiah 25
10 a. Lit. cause to perish from them
12 b. Beginning circa 605 B.C. (2 Kin. 24:1) and ending circa 536 B.C. (Ezra 1:1)
15 c. wrath
26 d. A code word for Babylon, Jer. 51:41
35 e. Or refuge
Jeremiah 26
11 a. Lit. A judgment of death to this man
14 b. right
18 c. Lit. house
18 d. Lit. high places
23 e. Lit. sons of the people
Jeremiah 27
1 a. LXX omits v. 1.
1 b. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; some Heb. mss., Arab., Syr. Zedekiah (cf. 27:3, 12; 28:1)
9 c. Lit. dreams
Jeremiah 28
4 a. Jehoiachin, 2 Kin. 24:12
Jeremiah 29
2 a. Jehoiachin, 2 Kin. 24:12; 2 Chr. 36:10
2 b. Or officers
32 c. descendants, lit. seed
Jeremiah 30
5 a. dread
6 b. Lit. male can give birth
6 c. childbirth
18 d. ruins
23 e. Or sweeping
Jeremiah 31
3 a. Lit. from afar
5 b. Lit. treat them as common
10 c. Or coastlands
14 d. Fill to the full
20 e. Lit. inward parts
21 f. Or Return
25 g. fully satisfied
32 h. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. and I turned away from them
33 i. Lit. inward parts
Jeremiah 32
4 a. Lit. mouth to mouth
10 b. Lit. book
17 c. difficult
19 d. deed
34 e. The temple
41 f. truly
44 g. Heb. shephelah
44 h. Heb. Negev
Jeremiah 33
2 a. Heb. YHWH
3 b. inaccessible
16 c. Heb. YHWH Tsidkenu; cf. Jer. 23:5, 6
18 d. burn
Jeremiah 34
3 a. Lit. mouth to mouth
14 b. Or sold himself
15 c. Lit. today
19 d. Or officers
Jeremiah 35
4 a. Lit. threshold
13 b. listen to
14 c. listen to
Jeremiah 36
4 a. Lit. from Jeremiah’s mouth
6 b. Lit. from my mouth
10 c. Lit. ears
17 d. Lit. with his mouth
26 e. Or son of Hammelech
27 f. Lit. from Jeremiah’s mouth
31 g. Lit. seed
32 h. Lit. from Jeremiah’s mouth
Jeremiah 37
14 a. a lie
Jeremiah 38
1 a. Jehucal, Jer. 37:3
4 b. Is discouraging
4 c. Well-being; lit. peace
6 d. Or son of Hammelech
7 e. Or officers
17 f. Lit. go out
18 g. Lit. go out
21 h. Lit. go out
22 i. Or misled
22 j. Deserted you
Jeremiah 39
2 a. city wall was breached
3 b. A title, probably Chief Officer; also v. 13
3 c. A title, probably Troop Commander; also v. 13
4 d. Or Arabah; the Jordan Valley
7 e. chains
10 f. Lit. on that day
Jeremiah 40
4 a. Or are
8 b. Jaazaniah, 2 Kin. 25:23
14 c. Or Certainly you know that
Jeremiah 41
1 a. Lit. seed
7 b. Or cistern
9 c. Or cistern
Jeremiah 42
6 a. Lit. good
6 b. Lit. evil
15 c. Or surely
19 d. warned
20 e. Lit. used deceit against your souls
Jeremiah 43
3 a. Or incited
9 b. Or mortar
12 c. So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. He
13 d. Lit. House of the Sun, ancient On, later called Heliopolis
Jeremiah 44
1 a. Ancient Memphis
6 b. Or became a ruin
10 c. Lit. crushed
11 d. destroying
14 e. Lit. lift up their soul
17 f. Lit. bread
Jeremiah 45
1 a. Lit. from Jeremiah’s mouth
Jeremiah 46
3 a. Set in order
3 b. A small shield
9 c. Heb. Cush
9 d. Heb. Put
10 e. Filled to the full
14 f. Ancient Memphis
19 g. Ancient Memphis
21 h. Lit. calves of the stall
25 i. A sun god
25 j. Ancient Thebes
Jeremiah 47
3 a. Lit. From sinking hands
4 b. Crete
7 c. Lit. you
Jeremiah 48
1 a. Heb. Misgab
2 b. A city of Moab
4 c. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX Proclaim it in Zoar
6 d. Or Aroer, a city of Moab
11 e. Heb. uses masc. and fem. pronouns interchangeably in this chapter.
12 f. Lit. tippers of wine bottles
25 g. Strength
30 h. idle talk
31 i. So with DSS, LXX, Vg.; MT He
33 j. cease
34 k. Or The Third Eglath, an unknown city, Is. 15:5
35 l. Places for pagan worship
Jeremiah 49
1 a. Heb. Malcam, lit. their king; an Ammonite god, 1 Kin. 11:5; Molech, Lev. 18:21
2 b. Lit. daughters
3 c. See v. 1
4 d. Lit. Your valley is flowing
13 e. ruin
13 f. ruins
19 g. Or thicket
20 h. Or drag them away
23 i. anxiety
24 j. childbirth
32 k. Lit. cut off at the corner, Jer. 9:26; 25:23
35 l. Power
Jeremiah 50
2 a. lift
2 b. Or Marduk; a Babylonian god
3 c. Or wander
8 d. male goats
9 e. So with some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr.; MT, Tg., Vg. a warrior who makes childless
11 f. Or neigh like steeds
21 g. Or Attack with the sword
29 h. Qr., some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg. add to her
31 i. So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. The time of your punishment
38 j. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; Syr. sword; LXX omits A drought is
44 k. Or thicket
Jeremiah 51
1 a. Lit. The Midst of Those Who Rise Up Against Me; a code word for Chaldea, Babylonia
11 b. Polish the arrows!
41 c. A code word for Babylon, Jer. 25:26
44 d. A Babylonian god
45 e. Lit. his soul
51 f. holy places
53 g. ascend
58 h. Lit. laid utterly bare
Jeremiah 52
7 a. Or Arabah; the Jordan Valley
11 b. shackles
18 c. basins
21 d. 18 inches each
21 e. 3 inches
25 f. Lit. eunuch
31 g. Or Awil-Marduk; lit. The Man of Marduk
31 h. Showed favor to
33 i. Lit. he