Jeremiah 29:6

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Take	קְח֣וּ ke.Chu	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
wives	נָשִׁ֗ים na.Shim	H802	a woman · noun, common masculine plural absolute
beget	וְהוֹלִידוּ֮ ve.ho.li.Du	H3205	to bear young · conjunction + verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
sons	בָּנִ֣ים ba.Nim	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
daughters	וּבָנוֹת֒ u.va.nOt	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · conjunction + noun, common feminine plural absolute
take	וּקְח֨וּ u.ke.Chu	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
wives	נָשִׁ֗ים na.Shim	H802	a woman · noun, common masculine plural absolute
sons	לִבְנֵיכֶ֜ם liv.nei.Khem	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
give	תְּנ֣וּ te.Nu	H5414	to give · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
daughters	בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ be.no.tei.Khem	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
husbands	לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים la.'a.na.Shim	H582	a man in general (singly or collectively) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural absolute
bear	וְתֵלַ֖דְנָה ve.te.Lad.nah	H3205	to bear young · conjunction + verb, qal, 3rd person feminine plural
sons	בָּנִ֣ים ba.Nim	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
daughters	בֵּן bên	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name)
increased	וּרְבוּ u.re.vu-	H7235	to increase (in whatever respect) · conjunction + verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
diminished	תִּמְעָֽטוּ tim.'A.tu	H4591	properly · verb, qal jussive, 2nd person masculine plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Genesis 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 24:3-4 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daug…
Genesis 24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
Genesis 28:1-4 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
Judges 12:9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Isra…
Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 29:1-7

We are here told, I. That Jeremiah wrote to the captives in Babylon, in the name of the Lord. Jeconiah had surrendered himself a prisoner, with the queen his mother, the chamberlains of his household, called here the eunuchs, and many of the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, who were at that time the most active men; the carpenters and smiths likewise, being demanded, were yielded up, that those who remained might not have any proper hands to fortify their city or furnish themselves with weapons of war. By this tame submission it was hoped that Nebuchadnezzar would be pacified. Satis est prostrasse leoni - It suffices the lion to have laid his antagonist prostrate; but the imperious conqueror…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 29:6

that ye . . . be . . . not diminished--It was God's will that the seed of Abraham should not fail; thus consolation is given them, and the hope, though not of an immediate, yet of an ultimate, return.

John Gill on Jeremiah 29:6

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters,.... That is, such as had no wives, who were either bachelors or widowers; not that they were to take wives of the Chaldeans, but of those of their own nation; for intermarriages with Heathens were forbidden them; and this they were to do, in order to propagate their posterity, and keep up a succession: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands; or "men" (s); preserving and establishing the right of parents to give their children in marriage, and pointing to them their duty to provide suitable yoke fellows for them; and hereby is signified, that not only they, but their children after them, should continue in this state of…

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John Calvin on Jeremiah 29:3-6

Jeremiah 29:3-6 3. By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying, 3. Per manum Eleasah filii Saphan et Gamariae filii Helchiae, quos miserat Zedechias rex Jehudah ad Nebhadnezer regem Babylonis Babylonem, dicendo, 4. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; 4. Sic dicit Jehovah exercituum, Deus Israel, universae captivitati quam captivam adduxi e Jerusalem Babylonem, 5. Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; 5. AE…

Dictionary and topics

Babylon · The Jews exhorted to be subject to, and settle in — The Jews exhorted to be subject to, and settle in

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Jeremiah 29:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 29:1-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 29:6

John Gill on Jeremiah 29:6

John Calvin on Jeremiah 29:3-6

Dictionary and topics

Jeremiah 29:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 29:1-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 29:6

John Gill on Jeremiah 29:6

John Calvin on Jeremiah 29:3-6

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Jeremiah 29:4-14

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Jeremiah 29:5-7

Rashi on Jeremiah 29:2