Jeremiah 6:1
Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa blow ye a trumpet, And over Beth-Haccerem lift ye up a flame, For evil hath been seen from the north, And great destruction.This verse in the real world
In what words
- בֵּית הַכֶּרֶםBêyth hak-KeremBeth-hak-Kerem, a place in Palestine
- עוּזʻûwzto be strong; causatively, to stregthen, i.e. (figuratively) to save (by flight)
- תְּקוֹעַTᵉqôwaʻTekoa, a place in Palestine
- מַשְׂאֵתmasʼêthproperly, (abstractly) a raising (as of the hands in prayer), or rising (of flame); figura
- שָׁקַףshâqaphproperly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a s
- שׁוֹפָרshôwphâra cornet (as giving a clear sound) or curved horn
- תָּקַעtâqaʻto clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a
- צָפוֹןtsâphôwnproperly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- The Lachish letters — "we are watching for the signals of Lachish"Confirmed by the groundLetters from the last weeks of Judah, found in the ash of the gate they were written in, name the two cities Jeremiah names — one of them apparently already dark.
Cross-references
Neh 3:14, 2Ch 11:6, Jer 6:22, Jos 18:21–28, 2Sa 14:2, Jer 4:5–6, Jdg 1:21, Jer 4:19–20