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Jeremiah 51:4

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Jeremiah 51:4 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 shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    For the wounded people will fall in the land of the Chaldeans; those who are killed will fall in her streets.

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
    They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Thus the slaine shall fall in the lande of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the wounded have fallen in the land of the Chaldeans, || And the pierced-through in her streets.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    For the wounded people will fall in the land of the Chaldeans; those who are killed will fall in her streets.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    For the wounded people will fall in the land of the Chaldeans; those who are killed will fall in her streets.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    They will fall down slain in the land of the Kasdim, and thrust through in her streets.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    They will fall down wounded in her streets, killed in the country of Babylonia.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים to pierce H1856 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים to pierce H1856 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 adjective

Verb forms

  • וְנָפְל֥וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים Pual · Participle Passive
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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 51:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Jeremiah 49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Isaiah 13:15 Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.
  • Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.
  • Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
  • Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 51:4 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְנָפְל֥וּ חֲלָלִ֖ים בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים בְּחוּצוֹתֶֽיהָ

They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

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)
    וְיִתְרְמוֹן קְטוֹלִין בְּאַרְעָא כַּסְדָאֵי וּמַטְעֲנִין בְּשׁוֹקָהָא:

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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 51:4 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 51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.

Ver. 4. Thus the slain shall fall.] Both within the walls and without, των φονων ουτ αριθμος ουθ ορος, there shall be neither measure nor end of manslaughter, as Plutarch saith of Rome in Sulla’s time.

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

(See on Jer 49:26; Jer 50:30; Jer 50:37).

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 Calvin's Commentaries

HE proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain, — that the time was nigh when God would take vengeance on the Babylonians. As, then, this could not be without great destruction in a city so very populous, and as it could not be overthrown except calamity extended itself through the whole country, hence, he says, that though Babylon should prepare great and powerful armies, it would yet be in vain, because they shall fall, he says, wounded everywhere in the land; and then he adds, and pierced through in her streets By these words he means, that the Chaldeans would be slain not only in the open fields, but also in the midst of the city. he afterwards adds, —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

John Gill's Exposition

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians:

and they that are thrust through in her streets; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned; See Gill on Jer 50:30.

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

Translate it: “And they,” i. e., the young men who form her host Jer 51:3, “shall fall slain in the land of the Chaldaeans, and pierced through in her streets,” i. e., the streets of Babylon.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Thus all of them shall be destroyed, some in the fields, some in the streets of their cities.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

In her streets; i.e. in the streets of Babylon.

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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is dâqar (“to pierce”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to pierce” (dâqar) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Numbers 25:8, which shares the word «to pierce», read alongside this verse?
  3. 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?
  4. «וְנָפְל֥וּ» is a Qal Sequential 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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