Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, August 21st, 2025
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Hebrew Modern Translation

ירמיה 14:4

בעבור האדמה חתה כי לא היה גשם בארץ בשו אכרים חפו ראשם׃

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Drought;   Famine;   Impenitence;   Mourning;   Thompson Chain Reference - Drought;   God's;   Judgments, God's;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Famine;   Rain;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Economic Life;   Famine and Drought;   Husbandman;   Jeremiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Plowman;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ashamed;   Chapt;   Plow;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joel, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
בעבור האדמה חתה כי לא היה גשם בארץ בשו אכרים חפו ראשם
Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
בַּעֲב֤וּר הָאֲדָמָה֙ חַ֔תָּה כִּ֛י לֹא־הָיָ֥ה גֶ֖שֶׁם בָּאָ֑רֶץ בֹּ֥שׁוּ אִכָּרִ֖ים חָפ֥וּ רֹאשָֽׁם ׃
Westminster Leningrad Codex
בַּעֲבוּר הָאֲדָמָה חַתָּה כִּי לֹא־הָיָה גֶשֶׁם בָּאָרֶץ בֹּשׁוּ אִכָּרִים חָפוּ רֹאשָֽׁם ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the ground: Leviticus 26:19, Leviticus 26:20, Deuteronomy 28:23, Deuteronomy 28:24, Deuteronomy 29:23, Joel 1:19, Joel 1:20

the plowmen: Joel 1:11, Joel 1:17

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 9:19 - the seer 2 Samuel 15:30 - his head covered Esther 6:12 - having Job 6:20 - confounded Job 9:24 - he covereth Job 36:33 - the cattle Isaiah 19:7 - every Jeremiah 3:3 - the showers Jeremiah 14:3 - covered Amos 4:7 - I have Haggai 1:6 - have Zechariah 14:17 - even

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because the ground is chapt,.... Through the violent heat of the sun, and want of rain; or, is broken y; and crumbles into dust. The Targum is,

"because of sins, the inhabitants of the earth are broken:''

for there was no rain in the earth; this was the reason of the dearth, and of the famine, and why there was no water in the pits, and the ground was parched. It is to be understood of the land of Judea only, not of the whole earth:

the ploughmen were ashamed; because they could not work the earth with their plough; were obliged to sit still, could do no work, or go on with their husbandry; nothing could be done for want of rain: they covered their heads; as before; :-.

y חתה "confracta", Schmidt; "attritam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is chapt - Rather, is dismayed. “The ground” is used metaphorically for the people who until the ground.

In the earth - i. e., “in the land.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 14:4. The ground is chapt — The cracks in the earth before the descent of the rains are in some places a cubit wide, and deep enough to receive the greater part of a human body.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile