Jeremiah 2:16
Strong's Lexicon
The men
בְּנֵי־ (bə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: 1) son, grandson, child, member of a group 1a) son, male child 1b) grandson 1c) children (pl. - male and female) 1d) youth, young men (pl.) 1e) young (of animals) 1f) sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels] 1g) people (of a nation) (pl.) 1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.) 1i) a member of a guild, order, class

of Memphis
נֹ֖ף (nōp̄)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5297: Noph = 'presentability' 1) another name for 'Memphis' the capital city of Egypt

and Tahpanhes
(וְתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס) (wə·ṯaḥ·pan·ḥês)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8471: Tahpanhes or Tahapanes or Tehaphnehes = 'thou will fill hands with pity' 1) a city in Egypt; modern 'Tel Defenneh' or 'Tel Defneh' located approx 18 miles (29 km) east southeast from Tanis

have shaved
יִרְע֖וּךְ (yir·‘ūḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7462: 1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tend, pasture 1a1a) to shepherd 1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig) 1a1c) of people as flock (fig) 1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst) 1a2) to feed, graze 1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal) 1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig) 1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess 2) to associate with, be a friend of (meaning probable) 2a) (Qal) to associate with 2b) (Hithpael) to be companions 3) (Piel) to be a special friend

the crown of your head.
קָדְקֹֽד׃ (qā·ḏə·qōḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6936: 1) head, crown of head, top of head, hairy crown, scalp

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

Young's Literal Translation
Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee—the crown of the head!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The men of Memphis and  Tahpanheshave also broken your  skull.

New American Standard Bible
"Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes Have shaved the crown of your head.

King James Bible
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skull.

New Living Translation
Egyptians, marching from their cities of Memphis and Tahpanhes, have destroyed Israel's glory and power.

English Standard Version
Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

New American Standard Bible
"Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes Have shaved the crown of your head.

King James Bible
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have also broken your skull.

International Standard Version
Also, people from Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken your skull.

NET Bible
Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel.

American Standard Version
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

English Revised Version
The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

Young's Literal Translation
Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!
















Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

Isaiah 19:13
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

Jeremiah 43:7
So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

Jeremiah 43:8
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

Jeremiah 44:1
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

Jeremiah 48:45
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

Ezekiel 30:13
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 9:6
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Jeremiah 1:1
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
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