Jeremiah 2:23
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

Young's Literal Translation
How sayest thou, ‘I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?’ See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

King James Bible
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Hebrew
“How
אֵ֣יךְ (’êḵ)
Interjection
Strong's 349: How?, how!, where

can you say,
תֹּאמְרִ֞י (tō·mə·rî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘I am not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

defiled;
נִטְמֵ֗אתִי (niṭ·mê·ṯî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean

I have not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

run
הָלַ֔כְתִּי (hā·laḵ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

after
אַחֲרֵ֤י (’a·ḥă·rê)
Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

the Baals’?
הַבְּעָלִים֙ (hab·bə·‘ā·lîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1168: Baal -- a heathen god

Look
רְאִ֤י (rə·’î)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

at your behavior
דַרְכֵּךְ֙ (ḏar·kêḵ)
Noun - common singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

in the valley;
בַּגַּ֔יְא (bag·gay)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1516: A valley

acknowledge
דְּעִ֖י (də·‘î)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

what
מֶ֣ה (meh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

you have done.
עָשִׂ֑ית (‘ā·śîṯ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

You are a swift
קַלָּ֖ה (qal·lāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7031: Light, swift, fleet

young she-camel
בִּכְרָ֥ה (biḵ·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1072: A young camel, dromedary

galloping here and there,
מְשָׂרֶ֥כֶת (mə·śā·re·ḵeṯ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 8308: To interlace

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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