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Jeremiah 2:21

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For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.	Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?	For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Yet I had planted^H5193 thee a noble vine^H8321, wholly a right^H571 seed^H2233: how then art thou turned^H2015 into the degenerate plant^H5494 of a strange^H5237 vine^H1612 unto me?

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Original Hebrew

וְאָנֹכִי נְטַעְתִּיךְ שֹׂרֵק כֻּלֹּה זֶרַע אֱמֶת וְאֵיךְ נֶהְפַּכְתְּ לִי סוּרֵי הַגֶּפֶן נָכְרִיָּה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/אָֽנֹכִי֙	ve./'a.no.Khi	H595	HC/Pp1cs	and/ I
נְטַעְתִּ֣י/ךְ	ne.ta'.Ti/kh	H5193	HVqp1cs/Sp2fs	I had planted/ you
שֹׂרֵ֔ק	so.Rek	H8321	HNcmsa	a choice vine
כֻּלֹּ֖/ה	ku.Lo/h	H3605	HNcmsc/Sp3ms	all of/ it
זֶ֣רַע	Ze.ra'	H2233	HNcmsc	(was) seed of
אֱמֶ֑ת	'e.Met	H571	HNcfsa	reliability
וְ/אֵיךְ֙	ve./'eiKh	H349	HC/Ti	and/ how?
נֶהְפַּ֣כְתְּ	neh.Pakht	H2015	HVNp2fs	have you changed yourself
לִ֔/י	L/i		HR/Sp1cs	to (the)/ me
סוּרֵ֖י	su.Rei	H5494	HAampc	(the) degenerate (ones) of
הַ/גֶּ֥פֶן	ha./Ge.fen	H1612	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ vine
נָכְרִיָּֽה	na.khe.ri.Yah	H5237	HAafsa	alien

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H571 — אֶמֶת (ʼemeth, eh'-meth): contracted from אָמַן; stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness; assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
• H1612 — גֶּפֶן (gephen, gheh'-fen): from an unused root meaning to bend; a vine (as twining), especially the grape; vine, tree.
• H2015 — הָפַךְ (hâphak, haw-fak'): a primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert; [idiom] become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
• H2233 — זֶרַע (zeraʻ, zeh'-rah): from זָרַע; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity; [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
• H5193 — נָטַע (nâṭaʻ, naw-tah'): a primitive root; properly, to strike in, i.e. fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively); fastened, plant(-er).
• H5237 — נׇכְרִי (nokrîy, nok-ree'): from נֶכֶר (second form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful); alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).
• H5494 — סוּר (çûwr, soor): probably passive participle of סוּר; turned off, i.e. deteriorated; degenerate.
• H8321 — שֹׂרֵק (sôrêq, so-rake'): or שׂוֹרֵק; and (feminine) שֹׂרֵקָה; from שָׁרַק in the sense of redness (compare שָׂרֻק); a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety); choice(-st, noble) wine. Compare שָׂרוּק.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H349 — אֵיךְ (ʼêyk, ake): also אֵיכָה ; and אֵיכָכָה ; prolonged from אַי; how? or how!; also where; how, what.
• H595 — אָנֹכִי (ʼânôkîy, aw-no-kee'): sometimes, aw-no'-kee; a primitive pronoun; I; I, me, [idiom] which.
• H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).

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