Jeremiah 2:22
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.”
עָוֺן
Iniquity, guilt, punishment. Avon. He forgives all your iniquity. God does not just forgive the act. He removes the guilt and the punishment.
כָּבַס
you will wash
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כָּבַס
to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative
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כָּתַם
is stained
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כָּתַם
properly, to carve or engrave, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe indelibly
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בֹּרִית
soap
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בֹּרִית
vegetable alkali
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נְאֻם
the utterance of
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נְאֻם
an oracle
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יְהֹוִה
Yahweh
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יְהֹוִה
{YHWH}
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