11 translations · Hebrew
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 10:14 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- KJV King James Version
- Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Every man is brutish by knowledge, || Every refiner is put to shame by a carved image, || For his molten image [is] false. And there is no breath in them.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Everyone is stupid; they don't know anything. Every metalworker is embarrassed by the idols they make. For their images made of molten metal are fraudulent—they're not alive!
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false [is] his molten image. And there is no breath in them.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Every man is become a fool for knowledge every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| נִבְעַ֤ר | niḇ·‘ar | is senseless | H1197 בָּעַר to burn: burn |
| כָּל־ | kāl- | Every | H3605 כֹּל all |
| אָדָם֙ | ’ā·ḏām | man | H120 אָדָם man |
| מִדַּ֔עַת | mid·da·‘aṯ | and devoid of knowledge | H1847 דַּ֫עַת knowledge |
| הֹבִ֥ישׁ | hō·ḇîš | is put to shame | H3001 יָבֵשׁ to wither |
| כָּל־ | kāl- | every | H3605 כֹּל all |
| צוֹרֵ֖ף | ṣō·w·rêp̄ | goldsmith | H6884 צָרַף to refine |
| מִפָּ֑סֶל | mip·pā·sel | by his idols | H6459 פֶּ֫סֶל idol |
| כִּ֛י | kî | For | H3588 כִּי for |
| שֶׁ֥קֶר | še·qer | are a fraud | H8267 שֶׁ֫קֶר deception |
| נִסְכּ֖וֹ | nis·kōw | his molten images | H5262 נֶ֫סֶךְ drink offering |
| וְלֹא־ | wə·lō- | and [there is] no | H3808 לֹא not |
| ר֥וּחַ | rū·aḥ | breath | H7307 רוּחַ spirit |
| בָּֽם׃ | bām | in them | H9003 ב in/on/with |
Related verses
- Psalm 135:16–18
They have mouths, but they can’t speak. They have eyes, but they can’t see. They have ears, but they can’t hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
- Psalm 115:4–8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see. They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell. …
- Isaiah 46:7–8
They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble. “Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
- Habakkuk 2:18–19
“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
- Isaiah 44:18–20
They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand. No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?” He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
- Romans 1:22–23
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
- Jeremiah 51:17–18
“Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
- Isaiah 42:17
“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
- Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
- Isaiah 45:16
They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
12 God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
13 When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
14 Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Read all of Jeremiah 10 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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