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