Jeremiah 29:6
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Young's Literal Translation
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;

King James Bible
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Hebrew
Take
קְח֣וּ (qə·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

wives
נָשִׁ֗ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and have
וְהוֹלִידוּ֮ (wə·hō·w·lî·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

sons
בָּנִ֣ים (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and daughters.
וּבָנוֹת֒ (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

Take
וּקְח֨וּ (ū·qə·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

wives
נָשִׁ֗ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

for your sons
לִבְנֵיכֶ֜ם (liḇ·nê·ḵem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and give
תְּנ֣וּ (tə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

your daughters
בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ (bə·nō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

in marriage,
לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים (la·’ă·nā·šîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 582: Man, mankind

so that they too may have
וְתֵלַ֖דְנָה (wə·ṯê·laḏ·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

sons
בָּנִ֣ים (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and daughters.
וּבָנ֑וֹת (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

Multiply
וּרְבוּ־ (ū·rə·ḇū-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

there;
שָׁ֖ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

do not
וְאַל־ (wə·’al-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

decrease.
תִּמְעָֽטוּ׃ (tim·‘ā·ṭū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 4591: To pare off, lessen, in, to be, small, few

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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