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Jeremiah 20 — Sermon Preparation
Pashhur has Jeremiah beaten and put in stocks; Jeremiah erupts in anguish, cursing the day of his birth yet unable to stop speaking the word. Below is a research summary for Jeremiah 20, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 15
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Jeremiah 20 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פַּשְׁחוּר | Pashchûwr | H6583 | 5 | Pashchur |
| יִרְמְיָה | Yirmᵉyâh | H3414 | 4 | Jirmejah |
| יָכֹל | yâkôl | H3201 | 4 | be able, can |
| רֶחֶם | rechem | H7358 | 3 | womb |
| בָּבֶל | Bâbel | H894 | 4 | Babel, Babylonia |
| פָּתָה | pâthâh | H6601 | 3 | open, be |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 5 | give, put |
How preachers through history handled this text
15 public-domain excerpts on Jeremiah 20, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“17. 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. 17. Quare non occidisti me ab utero? et fuisset (hoc est, ut esset) mihi mater mea sepulchrum meum? et in utero ejus conceptus saeculi (id est, perpetuus, vel, uterus ejus fuisset in conceptu perpetuo; et hoec posterior expositio videtur reelins quadrare, ac si diceret, Fuisset uterus, matris meoe sterilis, ita ut non conciperet nisi post soeculum, id est, nunquam.) 18. …”
— Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations - Volume 3, on Jeremiah 20:17–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Benjamin Gate— Jer 20:2
- Babylon 1— Jer 20:4
- Jerusalem— Jer 20:5
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