Jeremiah 36:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Jeremiah 36:13 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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Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Micaiah reported to them all the words that he had heard that Baruch read aloud in the hearing of the people.

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
    Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Then Michaiah declared vnto them all the wordes that he had heard when Baruch read in the booke in the audience of the people.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Micheas told them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read out of the volume in the hearing of the people.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And declare to them doth Micaiah all the words that he hath heard, when Baruch readeth in the book in the ears of the people;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Micaiah declares to them all the words that he has heard when Baruch reads in the scroll in the ears of the people;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Micaiah reported to them all the words that he had heard that Baruch read aloud in the hearing of the people.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Micaiah reported to them all the words that he had heard that Baruch read aloud in the hearing of the people.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Micah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read in the book in the ears of the people.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Micaiah gave them a report of everything he'd heard Baruch read from the scroll to the people.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

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מִכָ֔יְהוּ
Mîykâyᵉhûw
H4321
“Micaiah”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: abbrev. for H4322

TWOT: None

Micah or Micaiah or Michaiah = "who is like God" - an Ephraimite during the period of the judges - son of Imlah and a prophet of Samaria who predicted the defeat and death of king Ahab of Israel - son of Gemariah in the time of Jeremiah
  1. וַיַּגֵּ֤ד nâgad H5046 “and · to make known” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. אֵ֥ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  3. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. הַדְּבָרִ֖ים dâbâr H1697 “the · words” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  5. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  6. שָׁמֵ֑עַ shâmaʻ H8085 “to hear” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. בִּקְרֹ֥א qârâʼ H7121 “in/at · to call” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  8. בָר֛וּךְ Bârûwk H1263 “Baruch” Noun, Proper
  9. בַּסֵּ֖פֶר çêpher H5612 “in/at the · book” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. בְּאָזְנֵ֥י ʼôzen H241 “in/at · ears of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Dual, Construct
  11. הָעָֽם ʻam H5971 “the · people” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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13
words
12
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מִכָ֔יְהוּ Micaiah H4321 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מִכָ֔יְהוּ Micaiah H4321 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיַּגֵּ֤ד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
  • שָׁמֵ֑עַ Qal · Perfect
  • בִּקְרֹ֥א Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 13 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

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Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 36:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 2 Kings 22:10 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book. Shaphan read it before the king.
  • 2 Kings 22:19 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
  • 2 Chronicles 34:16–18 Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.
  • 2 Chronicles 34:24 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.
  • Jonah 3:6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 36:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּגֵּ֤ד לָהֶם֙ מִכָ֔יְהוּ אֵ֥ת כָּל הַדְּבָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁמֵ֑עַ בִּקְרֹ֥א בָר֛וּךְ בַּסֵּ֖פֶר בְּאָזְנֵ֥י הָעָֽם

Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

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)
    וְחַוֵי לְהוֹן מִיכָיְהוּ יַת כָּל פִּתְגָמַיָא דִשְׁמַע כַּד קְרָא בָּרוּךְ בְּסַפְרָא קֳדָם עַמָא:

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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 36:13 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 36:13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

Ver. 13. Then Micaiah declared unto them.] See Jer 36:11.

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

Then Micaiah declared all the words that he had heard,.... The sum and substance of them; for it cannot be thought that he should retain in his memory every word that he had heard; though, as it is very probable he was much struck and affected with what he had heard, he might remember and declare a great deal of it:

when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people; and this he also declared, no doubt, that what he had heard, and then related, were read by Baruch out of a book; as is clear from the princes sending for Baruch, and ordering him to bring the roll along with him, as in Jer 36:14.

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

That is, the substance of all the words, for none can imagine that a hearer could remember every word; which shows the vanity of those who overstrain such universal particles to signify every particular word or person.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Micaiah

See how you translated this man's name in Jeremiah 36:11.

reported to them

The word "them" refers to officials in Jeremiah 36:12.

in the hearing of the people

"so that the people could hear" See how similar words are translated in Jeremiah 2:2.

Jehudi ... Nethaniah ... Shelemiah ... Cushi

These are men's names. (See: How to Translate Names)

in our hearing

"so we can hear you read it" See how similar words are translated in Jeremiah 2:2.

read the scroll

"read the scroll aloud"

translationWords

report

word

Baruch

send

scroll

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 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mîykâyᵉhûw (“Micaiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Micaiah” (Mîykâyᵉhûw) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 1 Kings 22:8 shares the word «Micaiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. The verb «וַיַּגֵּ֤ד» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. 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?

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