Bible Verse Dictionary
Jeremiah 14:8 - Why
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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O the hope | H4723 | מִקְוֶה |
[Noun Masculine] something waited {for} that {is} confidence (objectively or subjectively); also a {collection} that {is} (of water) a {pond} or (of men and horses) a caravan or drove |
of Israel | H3478 | יִשְׂרָאֵל |
[Proper Name Masculine] he will rule as God; {Jisrael} a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity |
the saviour | H3467 | יָשַׁע |
[Verb] properly to be {open} wide or {free} that {is} (by implication) to be safe; causatively to free or succor |
thereof in time | H6256 | עֵת |
[Noun Feminine] {time} especially (adverbially with preposition) {now} {when } etc. |
of trouble | H6869 | צָרָה |
[Noun Feminine] tightness (that {is} figuratively trouble); transitively a female rival |
why | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
shouldest thou be | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
as a stranger | H1616 | גֵּר |
[Noun Masculine] properly a guest; by implication a foreigner |
in the land | H776 | אֶרֶץ |
[Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) |
and as a wayfaring man | H732 | אָרַח |
[Verb] to travel |
that turneth aside | H5186 | נָטָה |
[Verb] to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications |
to tarry | H3885 | לוּן |
[Verb] to stop (usually over night); by implication to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in {words} to complain) |
for a night |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.