Jeremiah 52:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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עַשְׁתֵּ֣י

ʻashtêy

H6249

“one”

Adjective, Ordinal number, Both, Plural, Construct

Appears 19× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 26:7

Full BDB Definition

Origin: apparently masc. pl. construction of H6247 in the sense of an afterthought (used only in connection with H6240 in lieu of H259 ) eleven or (ordinal) eleventh

TWOT: 1717c

one, eleven, eleventh

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

9: words
9: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עַשְׁתֵּ֣י one H6249 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עַשְׁתֵּ֣י one H6249 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
5 nouns
2 adjectives
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַתָּבֹ֥א Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 12 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Jeremiah 52:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַתָּבֹ֥א הָעִ֖יר בַּמָּצ֑וֹר עַ֚ד עַשְׁתֵּ֣י עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ

So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַעֲלַת קַרְתָּא בִּצְיָרָא עַד חֲדָא עַשְׂרֵי שְׁנִין לְמַלְכָּא צִדְקִיָהוּ:

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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 52:5 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 5. So the city was besieged] It held out one year and six months.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Gill's Exposition

So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. The siege continued about eighteen months; from the tenth day of the tenth month, in the ninth of Zedekiah's reign, to the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of his reign; as follows:

So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. The siege continued about eighteen months; from the tenth day of the tenth month, in the ninth of Zedekiah's reign, to the ninth day of the fourth month, in the eleventh year of his reign; as follows:

Jeremiah 52:6

jer 52:6

jer 52:6

jer 52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month,.... The month Tammuz (o), which answers to part of June and part of July; hence the fast of the fourth month, for the taking of the city, Zac 8:19;

the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land; for the common people; though there might be some in the king's palace, and in the houses of princes and noblemen, and officers of the army; yet none for the soldiers, and the meaner sort of people; who therefore were disheartened and enfeebled, that they could not defend the city, or hold out any longer: the famine had been before this time, but was now increased to a prodigious degree, so that the people had no bread to eat; see Jer 38:9.

(o) T. Bab. Roshhashana, fol. 18. 2. & Taanith, fol. 28. 2.

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

Lesson kit

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

Discussion questions

How does “one” (ʻashtêy) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Exodus 26:7, which shares the word «one», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַתָּבֹ֥א» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.