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Jeremiah 29:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Jeremiah 29:27 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself into a prophet against you?

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you,
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Nowe therefore why hast not thou reproued Ieremiah of Anathoth, which prophecieth vnto you?
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite, who prophesieth to you?
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And now, why hast thou not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is making himself a prophet to you?
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, why have you not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is making himself a prophet to you?
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself into a prophet against you?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself into a prophet against you?
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And now, why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you?
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you?
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    So why haven't you punished Jeremiah of Anathoth, who claims to be a prophet among you?
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    So why have you made no protest against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is acting as a prophet to you?
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הָֽעֲנְּתֹתִ֑י Anethothite H6069 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הָֽעֲנְּתֹתִ֑י Anethothite H6069 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 2 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 adverb
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • גָעַ֔רְתָּ Qal · Perfect
  • הַמִּתְנַבֵּ֖א Hithpael · Participle Active
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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 29:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 16:3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?
  • 2 Chronicles 25:16 It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
  • Jeremiah 1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
  • Jeremiah 29:26 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
  • Jeremiah 43:2–3 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;
  • Amos 7:12–13 Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
  • Matthew 27:63 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'
  • John 11:47–53 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
  • Acts 4:17–21 But so that this spreads no further among the people, let's threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this name."
  • Acts 5:28 saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
  • Acts 5:40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
  • 2 Timothy 3:8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 29:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַתָּ֗ה לָ֚מָּה לֹ֣א גָעַ֔רְתָּ בְּיִרְמְיָ֖הוּ הָֽעֲנְּתֹתִ֑י הַמִּתְנַבֵּ֖א לָכֶֽם

Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,

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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Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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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.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּכְעַן לְמָה לָא נְזַפְתְּ בְּיִרְמְיָה דְמִן עֲנָתוֹת דְמִתְנַבָּא לְכוֹן:

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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 29:27 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 29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?

Ver. 27. Now, therefore, why hast thou not reproved?] Or, Restrained Jeremiah? Alas! what had the righteous prophet done? He taxed their sin, he foretold their captivity; he desired it not, he inflicted it not, yet he must smart, and they are guilty. Zephaniah also is here blamed for his lenity, as bloody Bonner once was by the rest of the Popish bishops, who made him their slaughter slave.

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

of Anathoth--said contemptuously, as "Jesus of Nazareth."

maketh himself--as if God had not made him one, but he himself had done so.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

27. maketh himself a prophet] plays the part of a prophet, acts excitedly, like the dervishes of the present day. Cp. 1Sa_10:10; 1Sa_10:12 f., 1Sa_18:10, 1Sa_19:20 ff.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth,.... Not by words only, but by actions; by beating and scourging, by pillory or imprisonment, and so restraining him from prophesying to the people:

which maketh himself a prophet unto you? takes upon him such an office, though not sent of the Lord, as he would insinuate: this shows the haughtiness and insolence of the false prophets in Babylon, to assume such authority to themselves, to dictate to the high priest, as Kimchi takes him to be, or however the second priest, what he should do, and to rebuke him for not doing his office.

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

He means it of an active, real reproof, as appears by what went before; he would have had Jeremiah imprisoned, or put to that punishment which they called the stocks, the nature of which we cannot determine, concluding him to be but a madman, and one who was not made a prophet by any immediate mission from God, but had only made himself a prophet.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

27. Jeremiah of Anathoth — This sounds almost like an anticipatory echo of “Jesus of Nazareth.” It sounds as if spoken contemptuously.

Maketh himself a prophet — In this sentence is concentrated all pharisaic bitterness. He is a sacrilegious pretender, called by himself and not by God.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Reproved; i.e. threatened with punishment.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

This finishes the letter by Shemaiah that he sent out to the people in Jerusalem.

why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth ... against you?

Shemaiah uses a rhetorical question to scold the people of Jerusalem for not rebuking Jeremiah. This can be translated as a statement. AT: "I want you to rebuke Jeremiah of Anathoth ... against you." (See: Rhetorical Question)

he has sent to us

You may need to make explicit what it was that Jeremiah sent. AT: "he has sent a message to us" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit

See how you translated similar words in Jeremiah 29:5.

in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet

"so that Jeremiah the prophet could hear him read it." See how you translated similar words in Jeremiah 2:2.

translationWords

rebuke

life

fruit

Zephaniah

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻAnthôthîy (“Anethothite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word ʻAnthôthîy carries the sense “Anethothite.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does 2 Samuel 23:27, which shares the word «Anethothite», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «גָעַ֔רְתָּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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