What Does Jeremiah 46:16 Mean?

“He made many”

to increase (in whatever respect)

“to fall”

to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“fell”

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

“yea one”

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)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“upon another”

an associate (more or less close)

“and they said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“Arise”

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

“and let us go again”

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

near, with or among; often in general, to

“to our own people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

near, with or among; often in general, to

“and to the land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“of our nativity”

nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family

“from”

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

“sword”

drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement

“the oppressing”

to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat