King James Version
Jeremiah 20:15 in the King James Version says “Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.”
Jeremiah 20:15 · KJV
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide ;
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“be the man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“who brought tidings”
H1319properly, to be fresh, i.e., full (rosy, figuratively cheerful); to announce (glad news)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“to my father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“is born”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
“child”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“A man”
H2145properly, remembered, i.e., a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
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