What Does Jeremiah 49:36 Mean?

“shall not come”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“And upon Elam”

elam, a son of shem and his descendants, with their country; also of six israelites

“from the four”

four

“them toward all those winds”

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the

“from the four”

four

“quarters”

a termination

“of heaven”

the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r

“and will scatter”

to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“them toward all those winds”

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the

these or those

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

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“and there shall be no nation”

a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

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

“shall not come”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence

“whither the outcasts”

to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)

“And upon Elam”

elam, a son of shem and his descendants, with their country; also of six israelites