Jeremiah 20:17
Strong's Lexicon
because
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: 1) (relative part.) 1a) which, who 1b) that which 2) (conj) 2a) that (in obj clause) 2b) when 2c) since 2d) as 2e) conditional if

he did not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

kill me
מוֹתְתַ֖נִי (mō·wṯ·ṯa·nî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: 1) to die, kill, have one executed 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to die 1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death 1a3) to die, perish (of a nation) 1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct) 1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch 1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death 1d) (Hophal) 1d1) to be killed, be put to death 1d1a) to die prematurely

in the womb
מֵרָ֑חֶם (mê·rā·ḥem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7358: 1) womb 1a) womb 1b) womb-man, woman-slave, woman, two women

so that my mother
אִמִּי֙ (’im·mî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 517: 1) mother 1a) of humans 1b) of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.) 1c) of animals 2) point of departure or division

might have been
וַתְּהִי־ (wat·tə·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

my grave,
קִבְרִ֔י (qiḇ·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6913: 1) grave, sepulchre, tomb

and her womb
וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ (wə·raḥ·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7358: 1) womb 1a) womb 1b) womb-man, woman-slave, woman, two women

forever
עוֹלָֽם׃ (‘ō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5769: 1) long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world 1a) ancient time, long time (of past) 1b) (of future) 1b1) for ever, always 1b2) continuous existence, perpetual 1b3) everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity

enlarged.
הֲרַ֥ת (hă·raṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2030: 1) pregnant

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

Young's Literal Translation
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me—my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
because he didn’t kill me in  the wombso that my mother might have been my  grave, her womb eternally  pregnant.

New American Standard Bible
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.

King James Bible
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].
Parallel Verses
New International Version
For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

New Living Translation
because he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb, that her body had been my grave!

English Standard Version
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

New American Standard Bible
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.

King James Bible
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
because he didn't kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.

International Standard Version
because he didn't kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.

NET Bible
For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother's womb my grave forever.

American Standard Version
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

English Revised Version
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Young's Literal Translation
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
















Cross References
Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:18
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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

Jeremiah 20:16
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

Jeremiah 20:15
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jeremiah 21:1
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

Jeremiah 21:2
Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
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