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Jeremiah 36:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Jeremiah 36:15 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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They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then they said to him, “Sit down and read this in our hearing.” So Baruch read the scroll.

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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    “Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    “Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And they saide vnto him, Sit downe now, and reade it, that we may heare. So Baruch read it in their audience.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And they said to him: Sit down and read these things in our hearing. And Baruch read in their hearing.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and they say unto him, `Sit down, we pray thee, and read it in our ears,' and Baruch readeth in their ears,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and they say to him, “Please sit down and read it in our ears,” and Baruch reads [it] in their ears,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then they said to him, “Sit down and read this in our hearing.” So Baruch read the scroll.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then they said to him, “Sit down and read this in our hearing.” So Baruch read the scroll.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. And Baruch read [it] in their ears.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Please sit down and read it to us,” they said. So Baruch read it to them.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Then they said to him, Be seated now, and give us a reading from it. So Baruch did so, reading it to them.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And they said unto him: 'Sit down now, and read it in our ears.' So Baruch read it in their ears.

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בָר֖וּךְ
Bârûwk
H1263
“Baruch”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: pass. participle from H1288

TWOT: None

Baruch = "blessed" - friend, amanuensis, and faithful attendant of Jeremiah - a priest, the son of Zabbai who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem - a priest, or family of priests, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah - son of Col-hozeh, a descendant of Perez or Pharez, the son of Judah
  1. וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  2. אֵלָ֔יו ʼêl H413 “to · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  3. שֵׁ֣ב yâshab H3427 “dwell” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. נָ֔א nâʼ H4994 “please” Particle, Exhortation
  5. וּקְרָאֶ֖נָּה qârâʼ H7121 “and · call · her” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  6. בְּאָזְנֵ֑ינוּ ʼôzen H241 “in/at · ears · our” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Dual, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Plural
  7. וַיִּקְרָ֥א qârâʼ H7121 “and · to call” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. בְּאָזְנֵיהֶֽם ʼôzen H241 “in/at · ears · their” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Dual, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

About this verse

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9
words
7
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בָר֖וּךְ Baruch H1263 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • שֵׁ֣ב Qal · Imperative
  • וּקְרָאֶ֖נָּה Qal · Imperative
  • וַיִּקְרָ֥א Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וּקְרָאֶ֖נָּה to call H7121 ×2
  • בְּאָזְנֵ֑ינוּ ear H241 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 8 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.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 36:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֔יו שֵׁ֣ב נָ֔א וּקְרָאֶ֖נָּה בְּאָזְנֵ֑ינוּ וַיִּקְרָ֥א בָר֖וּךְ בְּאָזְנֵיהֶֽם

They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

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)

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  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וַאֲמָרוּ לֵיהּ תּוּב כְּעַן וּקְרָהָא קֳדָמָנָא וּקְרָא בָּרוּךְ קֳדָמֵיהוֹן:

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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 36:15 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 36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears.

Ver. 15. And they said, Sit down now] {a} This was some courtesy and token of good respect to Baruch. These princes were not all out so bad as their king.

{a} Reverenter sedere iusserunt. - Oecol.

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

15. Sit down] These words taken with Jer_36:19 shew that the princes were favourably disposed towards Baruch and Jeremiah. The same fact has been marked already in ch. Jer_26:16. Baruch took the position ordinarily assumed by an Eastern teacher. Cp. Luk_4:20.

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

And they said unto him, sit down now,.... Or, "pray sit down" (q); they received him very courteously, and treated him with great humanity, and showed much respect to him, in beseeching him to sit down by them:

and read it in our ears; as he had done in the ears of the people, with an audible voice, clearly and distinctly, that they might be able to hear it, so as to understand it:

so Baruch read it in their ears; without any fear or dread, though in the king's palace, and before an assembly of princes; nor did he excuse himself on account of weariness, having just read it to the people; or upbraid the princes with not being in the temple, where they might have heard it.

(q) "sede quaeso", Vatablus, Schmidt.

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

The courage of Baruch is admirable, he was now before the council, in the king’s house, the substance of the prophecies were threatening both to the king and court, and to all the people. The king, as appears by all history, was of no good temper; we read, Jer 26:23, of his sending for Urijah the prophet out of Egypt; when he had fled thither for fear of the king, and slaying him, and we shall find that at that time the princes advised both Jeremiah and Baruch to hide themselves; yet Baruch is not afraid, but reads the prophecy in their ears.

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

15. Sit down — A token of respect. This attention probably intimates the favour with which the “princes” regarded both Baruch and Jeremiah.

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

Sit down now. The princes evidently recognize Baruch as belonging to a family of distinction (see on ver. 4); and from vers. 19, 25 we may infer that they were favourably inclined beth to Baruch and to his master. (comp. Jer 26)

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

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bârûwk (“Baruch”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Baruch” (Bârûwk) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Nehemiah 3:20 shares the word «Baruch» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to call” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. 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?
  5. The verb «וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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