Jeremiah 7:33
The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the skies and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.This verse in the real world
In what words
- מַאֲכָלmaʼăkâlan eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit)
- נְבֵלָהnᵉbêlâha flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figurati
- עוֹףʻôwpha bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
- בְּהֵמָהbᵉhêmâhproperly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
- שָׁמַיִםshâmayimthe sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move,
- עַםʻama people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (colle
- אֶרֶץʼeretsthe earth (at large, or partitively a land)
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Deu 28:26, Jer 12:9, Rev 19:17–18, Jer 9:22, Ezk 39:4, Jer 19:7, Jer 22:19, Ezk 39:18–20