Jeremiah 5:8
Strong's Lexicon
They are
הָי֑וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
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

well-fed,
מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים (mə·yuz·zā·nîm)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2109: 1) to feed 1a) (Hophal) to be well fed

lusty
מַשְׁכִּ֣ים (maš·kîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7904: 1) (Hiphil) lustful (participle) 1a) meaning uncertain

stallions,
סוּסִ֥ים (sū·sîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5483: 1) swallow, swift 2) horse 2a) chariot horses

each
אִ֛ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: 1) man 1a) man, male (in contrast to woman, female) 1b) husband 1c) human being, person (in contrast to God) 1d) servant 1e) mankind 1f) champion 1g) great man 2) whosoever 3) each (adjective)

neighing
יִצְהָֽלוּ׃ (yiṣ·hā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6670: 1) to neigh, cry shrilly 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to neigh (of men as stallions-fig.) 1a2) (Piel) to cry shrilly (in distress) 2) (Hiphil) to make shining

after
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: 1) to, toward, unto (of motion) 2) into (limit is actually entered) 2a) in among 3) toward (of direction, not necessarily physical motion) 4) against (motion or direction of a hostile character) 5) in addition to, to 6) concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of 7) according to (rule or standard) 8) at, by, against (of one's presence) 9) in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to)

his neighbor’s
רֵעֵ֖הוּ (rê·‘ê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7453: 1) friend, companion, fellow, another person 1a) friend, intimate 1b) fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense) 1c) other, another (reciprocal phrase)

wife.
אֵ֥שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 802: 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Young's Literal Translation
Fed horses—they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They are well-fed,  eager stallions,  each neighing after someone else’s  wife. 

New American Standard Bible
"They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

King James Bible
They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man's wife.

New Living Translation
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.

English Standard Version
They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

New American Standard Bible
"They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

King James Bible
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They are well-fed, eager stallions, each neighing after someone else's wife.

International Standard Version
They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

NET Bible
They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor's wife.

American Standard Version
They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

English Revised Version
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Young's Literal Translation
Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
















Cross References
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:11
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

Ezekiel 22:11
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

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

Jeremiah 5:7
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

Jeremiah 5:6
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Jeremiah 5:5
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
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