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Jeremiah 38

Jer. 38:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thenz took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
they Jeremiah
Yirmyah (Hebrew #3414)
from 7311 and 3050; Jah will rise; Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites
KJV usage: Jeremiah.
Pronounce: yir-meh-yaw'
Origin: or Yirmyahuw {yir-meh-yaw'-hoo}
, and cast
shalak (Hebrew #7993)
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
Pronounce: shaw-lak
Origin: a primitive root
him into the dungeon
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
of Malchiah
Malkiyah (Hebrew #4441)
from 4428 and 3050; king of (i.e. appointed by) Jah; Malkijah, the name of ten Israelites
KJV usage: Malchiah, Malchijah.
Pronounce: mal-kee-yaw'
Origin: or Malkiyahuw (Jer. 38:6), {mal-kee-yaw'-hoo}
the son
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of μHammelech
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
, that was in the court
chatser (Hebrew #2691)
from 2690 in its original sense; a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)
KJV usage: court, tower, village.
Pronounce: khaw-tsare'
Origin: (masculine and feminine)
of the prison
mattara' (Hebrew #4307)
from 5201; a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched)
KJV usage: mark, prison.
Pronounce: mat-taw-raw'
Origin: or mattarah {mat-taw-raw'}
: and they let down
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
Jeremiah
Yirmyah (Hebrew #3414)
from 7311 and 3050; Jah will rise; Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites
KJV usage: Jeremiah.
Pronounce: yir-meh-yaw'
Origin: or Yirmyahuw {yir-meh-yaw'-hoo}
with cords
chebel (Hebrew #2256)
from 2254; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Pronounce: kheh'-bel
Origin: or chebel {khay'-bel}
. And in the dungeon
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
there was no water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, but mire
tiyt (Hebrew #2916)
mud or clay; figuratively, calamity
KJV usage: clay, dirt, mire.
Pronounce: teet
Origin: from an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rath. perb. a demon. from 2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away)
: so Jeremiah
Yirmyah (Hebrew #3414)
from 7311 and 3050; Jah will rise; Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites
KJV usage: Jeremiah.
Pronounce: yir-meh-yaw'
Origin: or Yirmyahuw {yir-meh-yaw'-hoo}
sunk
taba` (Hebrew #2883)
to sink
KJV usage: drown, fasten, settle, sink.
Pronounce: taw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
in the mire
tiyt (Hebrew #2916)
mud or clay; figuratively, calamity
KJV usage: clay, dirt, mire.
Pronounce: teet
Origin: from an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rath. perb. a demon. from 2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away)
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Jer. 37:21• 21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. (Jer. 37:21)
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Psa. 109:5• 5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. (Psa. 109:5)
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Luke 3:19‑20• 19But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
 20Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. (Luke 3:19‑20)
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or, the king,
Jer. 36:26• 26But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them. (Jer. 36:26)
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Court,
Dungeon,
Hammelech,
Jeremiah,
Malchiah; Malchijah,
Prison

Cross References

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Jer. 37:21• 21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. (Jer. 37:21)
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Psa. 109:5• 5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. (Psa. 109:5)
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Luke 3:19‑20• 19But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
 20Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. (Luke 3:19‑20)
into.
Jer. 37:16• 16When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; (Jer. 37:16)
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Lam. 3:55• 55I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. (Lam. 3:55)
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Acts 16:24• 24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. (Acts 16:24)
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2 Cor. 4:8‑9• 8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
 9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (2 Cor. 4:8‑9)
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Heb. 10:36• 36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. (Heb. 10:36)
Hammelech.
or, the king.
Jer. 36:26• 26But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them. (Jer. 36:26)
and they.
Jer. 38:11‑12• 11So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
 12And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. (Jer. 38:11‑12)
And in.This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place; the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty of the jailor.
"The eastern people," observes Sir J. Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be forthcoming when called for.
As to the rest, he is master to do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see him.
If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest inhumanity."
This adds a double energy to those passages which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the dungeon of Jonathan.
(ver. 26; ch. 37:20.)
Jer. 38:22• 22And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back. (Jer. 38:22)
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Gen. 37:24• 24And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. (Gen. 37:24)
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Psa. 40:2• 2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psa. 40:2)
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Psa. 69:2,14‑15• 2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
 14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
 15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:2,14‑15)
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Lam. 3:52‑55• 52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
 54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
 55I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. (Lam. 3:52‑55)
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Zech. 9:11• 11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. (Zech. 9:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeona of Malchijah the son of Hammelechb, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

JND Translation Notes

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a
As ch. 37.16, and so throughout.
b
See Note, ch. 36.26.