Jeremiah 18:21
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

King James Bible
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

Hebrew
Therefore,
לָכֵן֩ (lā·ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

hand their children
בְּנֵיהֶ֜ם (bə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

over
תֵּ֨ן (tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to famine,
לָרָעָ֗ב (lā·rā·‘āḇ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger

pour out
וְהַגִּרֵם֮ (wə·hag·gi·rêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5064: To flow, to stretch out, to pour out, down, to deliver over

the power
יְדֵי־ (yə·ḏê-)
Noun - fdc
Strong's 3027: A hand

of the sword
חֶרֶב֒ (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

upon them.
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Let their wives
נְשֵׁיהֶ֤ם (nə·šê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

become
וְתִֽהְיֶ֨נָה (wə·ṯih·ye·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

childless
שַׁכֻּלוֹת֙ (šak·ku·lō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7909: Childless

and widowed,
וְאַלְמָנ֔וֹת (wə·’al·mā·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 490: A widow, a desolate place

their husbands
וְאַ֨נְשֵׁיהֶ֔ם (wə·’an·šê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

be slain
הֲרֻ֣גֵי (hă·ru·ḡê)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent

by disease,
מָ֑וֶת (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

and their young men
בַּח֣וּרֵיהֶ֔ם (ba·ḥū·rê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 970: Selected, a youth

struck down
מֻכֵּי־ (muk·kê-)
Verb - Hofal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5221: To strike

by the sword
חֶ֖רֶב (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

in battle.
בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ (bam·mil·ḥā·māh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4421: A battle, war

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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