17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Jeremiah 50:17. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Word Entries
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Editorial Notes
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Westminster Leningrad Codex
Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain
Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
שֶׂ֧ה פְזוּרָ֛ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֲרָי֣וֹת הִדִּ֑יחוּ הָרִאשׁ֤וֹן אֲכָלוֹ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר וְזֶ֤ה הָאַחֲרוֹן֙ עִצְּמ֔וֹ נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֖ר מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃ ס
15 word entries
שֶׂ֧ה
פְזוּרָ֛ה
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל
אֲרָי֣וֹת
הִדִּ֑יחוּ
הָרִאשׁ֤וֹן
אֲכָלוֹ֙
מֶ֣לֶךְ
וְזֶ֤ה
הָאַחֲרוֹן֙
עִצְּמ֔וֹ
נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֖ר
מֶ֥לֶךְ
Syriac Peshitta Old Testament
Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܢܩܝܐ ܛܥܝܬܐ ܐܝܣܪܝܠ ܐܪ̈ܝܘܬܐ ܐܛܥܝܘ ܐܢܘܢ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܐܟܠܗ ܡܠܟܐ ܕܐܬܘܪ ܘܗܢܐ ܐܚܪܝܐ ܥܫܢ ܡܢܗ ܢܒܘܟܕܢܨܪ ܡܠܟܐ ܕܒܒܠ
17 word entries
ܢܩܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܩܝܐ
- Transliteration
- nqy'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 3
ܛܥܝܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܛܥܝܬܐ
- Transliteration
- t'yt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 4
ܐܝܣܪܝܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܝܣܪܝܠ
- Transliteration
- 'ysryl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 809
ܐܪ̈ܝܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܪܝܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- 'rywt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 18
ܐܛܥܝܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܛܥܝܘ
- Transliteration
- 't'yw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 3
ܐܢܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܢܘܢ
- Transliteration
- 'nwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 1636
ܩܕܡܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܩܕܡܝܐ
- Transliteration
- qdmy'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 116
ܐܟܠܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܟܠܗ
- Transliteration
- 'klh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1
ܡܠܟܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܡܠܟܐ
- Transliteration
- malka
- Morphology
- noun, masculine emphatic singular
- Gloss
- king
- Occurrences
- 1870
ܕܐܬܘܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܐܬܘܪ
- Transliteration
- d'twr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 108
ܘܗܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܗܢܐ
- Transliteration
- whn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 17
ܐܚܪܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܚܪܝܐ
- Transliteration
- 'hry'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 29
ܥܫܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܫܢ
- Transliteration
- 'shn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 11
ܡܢܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܢܗ
- Transliteration
- mnh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 240
ܢܒܘܟܕܢܨܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܒܘܟܕܢܨܪ
- Transliteration
- nbwkdnsr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 54
ܡܠܟܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܡܠܟܐ
- Transliteration
- malka
- Morphology
- noun, masculine emphatic singular
- Gloss
- king
- Occurrences
- 1870
ܕܒܒܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܒܒܠ
- Transliteration
- dbbl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 151
Targumim on Prophets and Writings
Aramaic · Targum Jonathan and Writings Targumim · Public Domain
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
עַם מְבַדְרָא יִשְׂרָאֵל מַלְכַּיָא טַלְטְלִינוּן קַדְמָאָה שַׁלִיט בְּהוֹן מַלְכָּא דְאַתּוּר וְדֵין בַּתְרָאָה אַסְפִינוּן נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַר מַלְכָּא דְבָבֶל׃
16 word entries
עַם
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- עם
- Transliteration
- 'm
- Morphology
- preposition
- Gloss
- with
- Occurrences
- 1754
מְבַדְרָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- בדרא
- Transliteration
- mbdr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 6
יִשְׂרָאֵל
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- ישראל
- Transliteration
- yshr'l
- Morphology
- proper noun
- Gloss
- Israel
- Occurrences
- 2312
מַלְכַּיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- לכיא
- Transliteration
- mlky'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 125
טַלְטְלִינוּן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- טלטלינון
- Transliteration
- tltlynwn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 2
קַדְמָאָה
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קדמאה
- Transliteration
- qdm'h
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 41
שַׁלִיט
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שליט
- Transliteration
- shlyt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 45
בְּהוֹן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- הון
- Transliteration
- bhwn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 1262
מַלְכָּא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- מלך
- Transliteration
- mlk'
- Morphology
- prefixed preposition מ + noun masculine singular emphatic
- Gloss
- from king
- Occurrences
- 2509
דְאַתּוּר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתור
- Transliteration
- d'twr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 124
וְדֵין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- דין
- Transliteration
- wdyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 684
בַּתְרָאָה
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תראה
- Transliteration
- btr'h
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 8
אַסְפִינוּן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אספינון
- Transliteration
- 'spynwn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 1
נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נבוכדראצר
- Transliteration
- nbwkdr'tsr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 28
מַלְכָּא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- מלך
- Transliteration
- mlk'
- Morphology
- prefixed preposition מ + noun masculine singular emphatic
- Gloss
- from king
- Occurrences
- 2509
דְבָבֶל׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- בבל
- Transliteration
- dbbl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 281
Latin Vulgate Clementine
Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Grex dispersus Israël: leones ejecerunt eum. Primus comedit eum rex Assur: iste novissimus exossavit eum Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis.
18 word entries
grex
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- grex
- Transliteration
- grex
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 182
dispersus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dispergo
- Transliteration
- dispersus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 116
Israhel
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Israel
- Transliteration
- Israhel
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 2547
leones
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- leo
- Transliteration
- leones
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 136
eiecerunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- eicio
- Transliteration
- eiecerunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 165
eum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
primus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- primus
- Transliteration
- primus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 238
comedit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- comedo
- Transliteration
- comedit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 528
eum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
rex
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- rex
- Transliteration
- rex
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2981
Assur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- assur
- Transliteration
- Assur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 26
iste
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- iste
- Transliteration
- iste
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 877
novissimus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nouus
- Transliteration
- novissimus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 312
exossavit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- exosso
- Transliteration
- exossavit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 1
eum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
Nabuchodonosor
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Nabuchodonosor
- Transliteration
- Nabuchodonosor
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 86
rex
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- rex
- Transliteration
- rex
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2981
Babylonis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Babylon
- Transliteration
- Babylonis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 271
Spirit Nation Greek LXX Alignment Note
English · Greek Septuagint Structure · Spirit Nation Editorial Note
Coverage: Source-structure exceptions
Explains reader references where the imported tradition does not align one-to-one.
Editorial alignment note: The Greek Septuagint tradition often follows different ordering, grouping, or book structure here. Reader-side public-domain text for this reference: "¶ Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones." This panel is a study bridge only, not a replacement for an ancient source witness.
Source verse imported. Word-by-word lemma, morphology, gloss, and lexicon entries have not been attached for this language/source yet.
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
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Greek LXX
alternate structure
Greek Jeremiah follows a shorter and differently ordered Septuagint tradition, so some Hebrew/English verse numbers do not have a one-to-one Greek panel.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
5 relevance votesJeremiah 50:6
My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
3 relevance votes1 Peter 2:25
Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.
3 relevance votesJoel 3:2
I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.
3 relevance votesJeremiah 5:6
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
2 relevance votesJeremiah 49:19
See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?
2 relevance votes2 Chronicles 33:11
So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
2 relevance votesJeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.
2 relevance votesJeremiah 51:38
They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
2 relevance votes2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.
2 relevance votesEzekiel 34:12
As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.
2 relevance votes2 Chronicles 28:20
Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.
2 relevance votes