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Jeremiah 48:23

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Jeremiah 48:23 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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Jeremiah 48:23 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/jeremiah/48/23.

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and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    to Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon,

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
    and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And vpon Kiriathaim, and vpon Beth-gamul, and vpon Beth-meon,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And on Beth-Gamul, and on Beth-Meon,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And on Beth-Gamul, and on Beth-Meon,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    to Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    to Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon;

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בֵּ֥ית Beth-gamul H1014 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • בֵּ֥ית Beth-gamul H1014

Grammatical profile

  • 5 nouns
  • 3 prepositions

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וְעַ֧ל upon H5921 ×3
  • בֵּ֥ית Beth-gamul H1014 ×2
  • בֵּ֥ית Beth-baal-meon H1010 ×2
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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 48:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Joshua 13:17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon,
  • Jeremiah 48:1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
  • Genesis 14:5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
  • Numbers 32:38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
  • Joshua 13:19 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 48:23 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַ֧ל קִרְיָתַ֛יִם וְעַל בֵּ֥ית גָּמ֖וּל וְעַל בֵּ֥ית מְעֽוֹן

and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,

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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  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְעַל קִרְיָתָיִם וְעַל בֵּית גְמוּל וְעַל בֵּית מְעוֹן:

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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 48:23 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 48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,

Ver. 23. And upon Kiriathaim.] See on Jer 48:1.

And upon Bethmeon.] "Baiith" Isaiah calleth it. {Jer 15:2}

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

Beth-gamul--meaning "the city of camels."

Beth-meon--"the house of habitation": Beth-baalmeon (Jos 13:17). Now its ruins are called Miun.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(23) Kiriathaim.—See Jer_48:1.

Beth-gamul.—The place is not named in the earlier lists of Num_32:34-38 and Jos_13:16-20. The name (=house of the camel) has a parallel in Gamala, and appears in the modern Um-el-Jemal, south of Buzrah, in the Haûran. This, however, lies out of the range of the Mishor, or “plain country,” to which the cities here enumerated belonged.

Beth-meon.—The name appears in its full form as Beth-baal-meon in Jos_13:17, as Baal-meon in Num_32:38; 1Ch_5:8; Eze_25:8. The name Meon (= citadel of heaven) survives in the modern Mi’un. Its combination with Baal makes it probable that it was famous as a sanctuary where the Moabite Baal was worshipped.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

23. Kiriathaim] See on Jer_48:1.

Beth-gamul] now Umm el Jemâl, S. of Medeba.

Beth-meon] the B. of Num_32:36; Eze_25:9; called Beth-baal-meon in Jos_13:17 and on the Moabite stone.

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 upon Kerioth,.... Which once belonged to the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:25; from this place Judas Iscariot is by some thought to have his name; as if it was "Ish Kerioth", "a man of Kerioth". Grotius takes it to be the Goiratha of Ptolemy:

and upon Bozrah; not in Idumea, but in Moab; the same with Bezer, Jos 21:36;

and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, for and near; all the rest of the cities not named, whether nearer or farther off from Aroer.

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Beth-meon - Meon is probably the Moabite Olympus, and thus Beth-Baal-Meon, the full name of this town Jos 13:17, would signify the place where the heavenly Baal was worshipped.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Kiriathaim (see on ver. 1). Beth-gamul. Nowhere else mentioned. Beth-meon. Called Baal-meon, Num_32:38; Beth-baal Jos_13:17. The extensive ruins of Ma"in are a short distance south of Heshbon.

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 8 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bêyth Gâmûwl (“Beth-gamul”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Beth-gamul” (Bêyth Gâmûwl) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. The word “Beth-gamul” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Joshua 13:17 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. “upon” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  5. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

  • 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
  • These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
  • “upon” occurs 3× in this single verse.
  • 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.

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