Jeremiah 13:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.

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בִּפְרָ֑ת

Pᵉrâth

H6578

“in/at · Euphrates”

Preposition + Noun, Proper

Appears 19× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 2:14

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to break forth

TWOT: None

Euphrates = "fruitfulness" - the largest and longest river of western Asia; rises from two chief sources in the Armenian mountains and flows into the Persian Gulf

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 →

7: words
7: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בִּפְרָ֑ת Euphrates H6578 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בִּפְרָ֑ת Euphrates H6578 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
2 nouns
2 particles

Verb forms

וָאֵלֵ֕ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וָאֶטְמְנֵ֖הוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
צִוָּ֥ה Piel · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 7 Hebrew tokens and 12 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 13:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
Exodus 39:42–43 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
Matthew 22:2–6 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
John 2:5–8 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
Acts 26:19–20 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
2 Timothy 2:3 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 11:8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
Hebrews 11:17–19 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 13:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וָאֵלֵ֕ךְ וָאֶטְמְנֵ֖הוּ בִּפְרָ֑ת כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אוֹתִֽי

So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.

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)

וַאֲזָלַת וּטְמַרְתֵּיהּ בִּפְרָת כְּמָה דִי פַּקֵיד יְיָ יָתִי:

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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 13:5 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 13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

Ver. 5. So I went and hid it by Euphrates.] In the cliff of a rock, where it might lie dry, never once asking the reason. This was simple and acceptable obedience, far beyond that of the Popish novices, who yet if their padres or superiors send them to China or Peru, without dispute or delay they do presently set forward.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

So I went and hid it by Euphrates,.... Or, "in" (o) it; in a hole of the rock, upon the banks of it:

as the Lord commanded me: all this seems to be done not really, but visionally; it can hardly be thought that Jeremy should be sent on two such long journeys, on such an account, which would take up a considerable time to perform it in; but rather that he went and came in like manner as Ezekiel did, in the visions of God, from Chaldea to Jerusalem, and from thence to Chaldea again, Eze 8:3, and so Maimonaides (p) was of opinion, as Kimchi on the place observes, that all this was done in a vision of prophecy.

(o) "in Euphrate", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin. (p) Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 46. p. 323.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Most think that Jeremiah did this but in a vision, for it was a very long journey for the prophet to take to go from Anathoth or Jerusalem as far as Euphrates. Jeremiah was obedient to God’s command, without any disputing or asking God the meaning of this injunction to him.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

So - Most think Jeremiah did this in a vision, for it was a very long journey from Anathoth to Euphrates.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Pᵉrâth (“Euphrates”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Pᵉrâth carries the sense “Euphrates.” How does it shape the verse?
Genesis 2:14 shares the word «Euphrates» with this verse. 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 «וָאֵלֵ֕ךְ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.