What Does Jeremiah 26:3 Mean?

if not; hence perhaps

“If so be they will hearken”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

“and turn”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“every 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)

“way”

a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb

“from his evil”

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

“that I may repent”

properly, to sigh, i.e., breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e., (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavo

near, with or among; often in general, to

“from his evil”

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

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

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“which I purpose”

properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou

“to do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“unto them because”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“of the evil”

badness (as marring), physically or morally

“of their doings”

an act (good or bad)