Jeremiah 48:37
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.”
שַׂק
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
עַל
will be on
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עַל
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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רֹאשׁ
head
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רֹאשׁ
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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יָד
hands
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יָד
Hand. Yad. The hand as the symbol of power and action. When God's hand rests on a life nothing is impossible.
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כֹּל
every
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כֹּל
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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מֹתֶן
loins
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מֹתֶן
properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
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גָּרַע
will be clipped
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גָּרַע
to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
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זָקָן
beard
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זָקָן
the beard (as indicating age)
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גְּדוּד
cuts
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גְּדוּד
a furrow (as cut)
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קׇרְחָה
will be baldness
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קׇרְחָה
baldness
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