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Jeremiah 5:8

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

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ASV

they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

KJV

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
סוּסִ֥יםsu.SimhorsesH5483 →
מְיֻזָּנִ֖יםme.yu.za.Nimwell fedH2109 →
מַשְׁכִּ֣יםmash.KimlustfulH7904 →
הָי֑וּha.Yuthey areH1961 →
אִ֛ישׁ'isheveryoneH376 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
אֵ֥שֶׁת'E.shet[the] wife ofH802 →
רֵעֵ֖הוּre.'E.huneighbor hisH7453 →
יִצְהָֽלוּ׃yitz.Ha.luthey neighH6670 →

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Jeremiah 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.Ezekiel 22:11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.2 Samuel 11:2–4One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.2 Samuel 11:3So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”Genesis 39:9No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”Jeremiah 29:23For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”Deuteronomy 5:21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”Exodus 20:17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.Matthew 5:27–28You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,Jeremiah 50:11“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.Ezekiel 23:20and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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