The Meaning of Jeremiah 2:4 Explained

Jeremiah 2:4

KJV: Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

YLT: Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel.

Darby: Hear the word of Jehovah, house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

ASV: Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Jeremiah 2:4?

MEANING: What does Jeremiah 2:4 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Jeremiah 2:4 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Jeremiah 2:4?

What is the context of Jeremiah 2:4?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

What does Jeremiah 2:4 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Jeremiah appealed to all the Israelites in his audience to hear what God had to say to them. Some scholars believe that attention-getting devices such as this one, and other clues in the text, indicate the beginning of a new oracle. ^[1] These students of the sources of our present canonical text believe that Jeremiah , or some other editor, arranged a number of shorter oracles into the sermon we have in chapter2for literary purposes. This is possible, I think, but not absolutely certain.

Context Summary

Jeremiah 2:1-8 - Ungrateful Forgetfulness

God regarded Israel as His bride, who had responded to His love, or as a vineyard and cornfield which were expected to yield their first fruits in response to the careful cultivation of the owner. Why had they failed to respond? For the answer let us question our own hearts. What marvels of perversity and disappointment we are! Who can understand or fathom the reason of our poor response to the yearning love of Christ! The heathen, in their punctilious devotion and lavish sacrifices at their idol-shrines, may well shame us. The root of the evil is disclosed in Jeremiah 2:31. We like to be lords, to assume and hold the mastery of our lives. But God has been anything but a wilderness to us. He has given us ornaments, and we owe to His grace the garments of righteousness which He has put on us. In return we have forgotten Him days without number, Jeremiah 2:32. Let us ask Him to call us back-nay more, to draw us by the chains of love. [source]

Chapter Summary: Jeremiah 2

¹ God having shown his former kindness,
⁵ expostulates with the people on their causeless and unexampled revolt
¹⁴ They are the causes of their own calamities
¹⁸ The sins and idolatries of Judah
³⁵ Her confidence is rejected

What do the individual words in Jeremiah 2:4 mean?

Hear the word of Yahweh house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel

שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר־ יְהוָ֖ה בֵּ֣ית יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְכָֽל־ מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

שִׁמְע֥וּ	Hear
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural Root: שָׁמַע Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
דְבַר־	the word
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: דָּבָר Sense: speech, word, speaking, thing.
יְהוָ֖ה	of Yahweh
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יהוה Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
בֵּ֣ית	house
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: בַּיִת Sense: house.
יַעֲקֹ֑ב	of Jacob
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יַעֲקֹב Sense: son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 2 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel.
וְכָֽל־	and all
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct Root: כֹּל Sense: all, the whole.
מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת	the families
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct Root: מִשְׁפָּחָה Sense: clan, family.
בֵּ֥ית	of the house
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: בַּיִת Sense: house.
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	of Israel
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.

What are the major concepts related to Jeremiah 2:4?

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