What Does Jeremiah 22:28 Mean?

“idol”

an earthen vessel; usually (painful) toil; also a pang (whether of body or mind)

“a despised”

to disesteem

“broken”

to dash to pieces, or scatter

“Is this man”

a 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)

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that

“Coniah”

conjah, an israelite king

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

“is he a vessel”

something prepared, i.e., any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“wherein is no pleasure”

pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)

what (is) known?; i.e., (by implication) (adverbially) why?

“and are cast”

to pitch over or reel; hence (transitively) to cast down or out

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“he and his seed”

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

“wherefore are they cast out”

to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“into a land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“which they know”

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o