King James Version
Jeremiah 52:33 in the King James Version says “And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 52 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.”
Jeremiah 52:33 · KJV
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison ,
And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, kindly: Heb. good things with him
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. every: Heb. the matter of the day in his day
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And changed”
H8138to fold, i.e., duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“and he did continually”
H8548properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); elliptically the re
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“him all the days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“of his life”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
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