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Jeremiah 16

Jer. 16:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Neither shall men πtear
parac (Hebrew #6536)
to break in pieces, i.e. (usually without violence) to split, distribute
KJV usage: deal, divide, have hoofs, part, tear.
Pronounce: paw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
themselves for them in mourning
'ebel (Hebrew #60)
lamentation
KJV usage: mourning.
Pronounce: ay'-bel
Origin: from 56
, to comfort
nacham (Hebrew #5162)
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself)
KJV usage: comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
Pronounce: naw-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
them for the dead
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
; neither shall men give them the cup
kowc (Hebrew #3563)
a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
KJV usage: cup, (small) owl. Compare 3599.
Pronounce: koce
Origin: from an unused root meaning to hold together
a of consolation
tanchuwm (Hebrew #8575)
and (feminine) tanchuwmah {tan-khoo-maw'}; from 5162; compassion, solace
KJV usage: comfort, consolation.
Pronounce: tan-khoom'
Origin: or tanchum {tan-khoom'}
to drink
shaqah (Hebrew #8248)
to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
KJV usage: cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See 7937, 8354.
Pronounce: shaw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
for their father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
or for their mother
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
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or, break bread for them,
Hos. 9:4• 4They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah. (Hos. 9:4)
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Prov. 31:6‑7• 6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:
 7let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. (Prov. 31:6‑7)

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Cup,
Father,
Mother,
Mourning

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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tear themselves.
or, break bread.
Deut. 26:14• 14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I brought away thereof in uncleanness, nor given thereof for a dead person; I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. (Deut. 26:14)
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Job 42:11• 11And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring. (Job 42:11)
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Ezek. 24:17• 17Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy turban upon thee, and put thy sandals upon thy feet, and cover not the beard, and eat not the bread of men. (Ezek. 24:17)
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Hos. 9:4• 4They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah. (Hos. 9:4)
cup.
Prov. 31:6‑7• 6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:
 7let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. (Prov. 31:6‑7)
• This is the first mention in sacred Scripture of breaking bread and drinking a cup of consolation in remembrance of the departed. {See JND translation} The Lord Jesus instituted such a feast on that “same night in which He was betrayed.” He gave new significance to the breaking of bread by declaring that it set forth the bruising of His precious body for our sin upon the cross of shame; while the cup became to us “the cup of blessing,” even “the communion of the blood of Christ,” (“Chapter 8” by H.A. Ironside)
• It is clear that to have had no one break bread nor drink the cup of consolation in memory of one who had died would have betokened utter forgetfulness. (“Chapter 8” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Nor shall they break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.

W. Kelly Translation

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Neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.