The Meaning of Jeremiah 16:1 Explained

Jeremiah 16:1

KJV: The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

YLT: And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

Darby: And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

ASV: The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The word  of the LORD  came also unto me, saying, 

What does Jeremiah 16:1 Mean?

Study Notes

saying
The sign of the unmarried prophet is interpreted by the context. The whole social life of Judah was about to be disrupted and cease from the land. But note the promises of verses Jeremiah 16:14-16 ; Jeremiah 17:7 ; Jeremiah 17:8 .

Chapter Summary: Jeremiah 16

1  The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage,
8  from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews;
10  because they were worse than their fathers
14  Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt
16  God will doubly recompense their idolatry

What do the individual words in Jeremiah 16:1 mean?

And came the word of Yahweh to me saying
וַיְהִ֥י דְבַר־ יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר

וַיְהִ֥י  And  came 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
דְבַר־  the  word 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: דָּבָר  
Sense: speech, word, speaking, thing.
יְהוָ֖ה  of  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
אֵלַ֥י  to  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: אֶל  
Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
לֵאמֹֽר  saying 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.

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