Jeremiah 13:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,

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שֵׁנִ֥ית

shênîy

H8145

“second”

Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 157× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 1:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H8138

TWOT: 2421b

second - second (the ordinal number) - again (a second time) - another, other (something as distinct from something else)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
2 nouns
1 adjective
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַיְהִ֧י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
לֵאמֹֽר Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 7 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 13:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Jeremiah 13:8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Jeremiah 13:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְהִ֧י דְבַר יְהוָ֛ה אֵלַ֖י שֵׁנִ֥ית לֵאמֹֽר

The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.

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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַהֲוָה פִּתְגַם נְבוּאָה מִן קֳדָם יְיָ עִמִי תִּנְיָנוּת לְמֵימָר:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Jeremiah 13:3 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Jer 13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,

Ver. 3. And the word of the Lord came to me.] Heb., Was to me. "At sundry times," {a} or piecemeal, God spake to his servants the prophets. {Heb 1:1}

{a} πολυμερως per gradus et momenta, non simul et semel.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

13:3-5 The Euphrates River is 300 miles north of Jerusalem. Jeremiah probably joined a merchant caravan for protection as he walked or rode a donkey for the 600-mile round trip. Jeremiah did not know the purpose of the trip, but he obeyed God’s instructions.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(3) The second time.—No dates are given, but the implied interval must have been long enough for the girdle to become foul, while the prophet apparently waited for an explanation of the strange command.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the word of the Lord,.... The Targum is,

"the word of prophecy from before the Lord:''

came unto me the second time, saying; what distance of time there was between this order and the former is not known.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shênîy (“second”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “second” (shênîy) shape what this verse is saying?
Jeremiah 13:8 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «וַיְהִ֧י» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 7 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.