Jeremiah 8:6
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.”
מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
כֵּן
right
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כֵּן
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
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עָשָׂה
have I done
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עָשָׂה
To do, to make, to accomplish. Asah. God looked at everything He had made and called it very good. Your life is also His asah. He is still working on it.
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רַע
wickedness/ his
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רַע
Evil, wicked, bad. Ra. The LORD will keep you from all evil. Not just some evil or most evil. All evil. His protection matches His power.
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שׁוּב
is turning
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שׁוּב
To return, to turn back. Shuwb. The Hebrew word behind both repentance and restoration. Return to Me and I will return to you.
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דָבַר
they speak
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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נָחַם
who relents
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נָחַם
To comfort, to console. Nacham. God's comfort is not distant advice but personal presence in the pain.
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כֹּל
all of/ it
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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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שָׁטַף
which rushes
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שָׁטַף
to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
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קָשַׁב
I have paid attention
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קָשַׁב
to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken
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