King James Version
Jeremiah 10:1 in the King James Version says “Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:”
Jeremiah 10:1 · KJV
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. customs: Heb. statutes, or, ordinances are vanity
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“ye the word”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“speaketh”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“which the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“unto you O house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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