Jeremiah 51:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Jeremiah 51:22 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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and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    With you I will smash each man and woman; with you I will smash the old and the young. With you I will smash the young men and the virgin girls.

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 with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    By thee also will I breake man and woman, and by thee wil I breake olde and yong, and by thee wil I breake the yong man and the mayde.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And I have broken in pieces man and woman by you, || And I have broken in pieces old and young by you, || And I have broken in pieces young man and virgin by you,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    With you I will smash each man and woman; with you I will smash the old and the young. With you I will smash the young men and the virgin girls.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    With you I will smash each man and woman; with you I will smash the old and the young. With you I will smash the young men and the virgin girls.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    I use you to destroy men and women; I use you to destroy old men and youths; I use you to destroy young men and girls.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And with thee will I shatter man and woman, and with thee will I shatter the old man and the youth, and with thee will I shatter the young man and the maid;

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וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י
nâphats
H5310
“and · to shatter”
Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Verb
Stem
Piel
Form
Sequential Perfect
Person
1st Person
Gender
Common
Number
Singular
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1394

to shatter, break, dash, beat in pieces - (Qal) - to shatter - shattering (infinitive) - (Piel) to dash to pieces - (Pual) to pulverise - to scatter, disperse, overspread, be scattered - (Qal) - to be scattered - dispersed (participle)
  1. אִ֣ישׁ ʼîysh H376 “man” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  2. וְאִשָּׁ֔ה ʼishshâh H802 “and · woman” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  3. וְנִפַּצְתִּ֥י nâphats H5310 “and · to shatter” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  4. זָקֵ֣ן zâqên H2205 “old” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וָנָ֑עַר naʻar H5288 “and · boy” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. וְנִפַּצְתִּ֣י nâphats H5310 “and · to shatter” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  7. בָּח֖וּר bâchûwr H970 “young man” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וּבְתוּלָֽה bᵉthûwlâh H1330 “and · virgin” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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12
words
7
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י to shatter H5310 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י to shatter H5310 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 3 prepositions

Verb forms

  • וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י Piel · Sequential Perfect
  • וְנִפַּצְתִּ֥י Piel · Sequential Perfect
  • וְנִפַּצְתִּ֣י Piel · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י to shatter H5310 ×3

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 51:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
  • Isaiah 13:18 [Their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
  • 1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
  • Ezekiel 9:6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
  • Deuteronomy 32:25 Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
  • Isaiah 13:16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
  • Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
  • Lamentations 2:11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
  • Isaiah 20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 51:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י בְךָ֙ אִ֣ישׁ וְאִשָּׁ֔ה וְנִפַּצְתִּ֥י בְךָ֖ זָקֵ֣ן וָנָ֑עַר וְנִפַּצְתִּ֣י בְךָ֔ בָּח֖וּר וּבְתוּלָֽה

and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

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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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)
    וַאֲבַדַר בָּךְ גְבַר וְאִתָּא וַאֲבַדַר בָּךְ סַב וְיָנִיק וַאֲבַדַר בָּךְ עוּלֵימִין וּבְתוּלָן:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    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 51:22 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 51:22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

Ver. 22. With thee also will I break (or, By thee have I broken) in pieces man and woman.] But especially my people of the Jews, whom I more valued than all the men and women in the world besides.

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

old and young-- (Ch2 36:17).

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

John Gill's Exposition

And I will render unto Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea,.... Or, "but I will render" (w), &c. though I have made this use of Babylon, she shall not be spared, but receive her just recompense of reward; not the city of Babylon only, but the whole land of Chaldea, and all the inhabitants of it:

all their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight, saith the Lord; the sense is, that for all the evil the Chaldeans had done in Judea; the ravages they had made there, the blood they had shed, and the desolation they had made; and particularly for what they had done in Jerusalem, and especially in the temple, burning, spoiling, and profaning that, God would now righteously punish them, and retaliate all this evil on them; and which should be done publicly, before all the nations of the world, and particularly in the sight of God's own people: for this phrase, "in your sight", does not refer to the evils done in Zion, but to the recompense that should be made for them.

(w) "sed rependam", Piscator; "sed retribuam", Schmidt.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

With you I will smash

Yahweh speaks of punishing people as if he were smashing them with a hammer. See how you translated this in Jeremiah 51:20. AT: "With you I will punish" (See: Metaphor)

With you I will

"I will use you to." See how you translated this in Jeremiah 51:20.

translationWords

virgin

shepherd

flocks

plow

govern

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Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 12 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâphats (“to shatter”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “to shatter” (nâphats) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Genesis 9:19, which shares the word «to shatter», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to shatter” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  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. «וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י» is a Piel Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

  • These translations choose different wording for 16 words in this verse.
  • “to shatter” occurs 3× in this single verse.
  • 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.

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