Chapter 5
Jeremiah 5:8
סוסים
סוּסִים
horses
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Noun common masculine plural absolute
מיזנים
מְיֻזָּנים
feeding-stalls
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Verb Pual participle passive masculine plural absolute
משכים
מַשְׁכִּים
those who incline shoulders
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Verb Hiphil participle active masculine plural absolute
היו
הָיוּ
they have become
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Verb Qal perfect third person common plural
איש
אִישׁ
a man/each one
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Noun common both singular absolute
אל
אֶל־
toward
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Preposition
אשת
אֵשֶׁת
woman
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Noun common feminine singular construct
רעהו
רֵעֵהוּ
friend of himself
STRONGS Fürst Gesenius
Noun common both singular construct, Suffix pronominal third person masculine singular
RBT Translation:
horses feeding-stalls those who incline shoulders they have become a man/each one toward woman friend of himself they are cheerfully exulting
RBT Paraphrase:
They have become horses of feeding-stalls, those who burden shoulders;1 they are cheerfully exulting, each man toward the woman of the friend of himself.
They have become horses of feeding-stalls, those who burden shoulders;1 they are cheerfully exulting, each man toward the woman of the friend of himself.
Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
They were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor.
They were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor.
LITV Translation:
They were like lusty, well fed stallions in the morning, everyone neighing after the wife of his neighbor.
They were like lusty, well fed stallions in the morning, everyone neighing after the wife of his neighbor.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor’s wife.
They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor’s wife.
Footnotes
| Jer. 5:8 | Jer. 5:8 משכים — from the primitive root ש‑כ‑ם, literally “to incline the shoulder / bend the shoulder under a burden”, i.e., the physical act of lifting or bearing a load on the shoulder, whether on a person or an animal. In the Qal stem, the denominative participle מַשְׁכִּים denotes “one who inclines the shoulder,” literally a burden-bearer. In the Hiphil stem (משכים), the causative sense is preserved: “to cause to incline the shoulder / to put a burden onto the shoulder”. The core semantic idea is physical adjustment under weight, with the shoulder bending downward to carry the load. Early attestations are in Biblical Hebrew; the form occurs with both nouns and participles describing this literal shoulder-bearing action. |