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Jeremiah 2

Jer. 2:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I brought
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
you into δa plentiful
karmel (Hebrew #3759)
a planted field (garden, orchard, vineyard or park); by implication, garden produce
KJV usage: full (green) ears (of corn), fruitful field (place), plentiful (field).
Pronounce: kar-mel'
Origin: from 3754
country
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, to eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
the fruit
priy (Hebrew #6529)
fruit (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bough, ((first-)) fruit((-ful)), reward.
Pronounce: per-ee'
Origin: from 6509
thereof and the goodness
tuwb (Hebrew #2898)
good (as a noun), in the widest sense, especially goodness (superlative concretely, the best), beauty, gladness, welfare
KJV usage: fair, gladness, good(-ness, thing, -s), joy, go well with.
Pronounce: toob
Origin: from 2895
thereof; but when ye entered
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
, ye defiled
tame' (Hebrew #2930)
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
KJV usage: defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, X utterly.
Pronounce: taw-may'
Origin: a primitive root
z my land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and made
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
mine heritage
nachalah (Hebrew #5159)
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
KJV usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158.
Pronounce: nakh-al-aw'
Origin: from 5157 (in its usual sense)
an abomination
tow`ebah (Hebrew #8441)
feminine active participle of 8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Pronounce: to-ay-baw'
Origin: or tonebah {to-ay-baw'}
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or, the land of Carmel.
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Psa. 106:38• 38And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. (Psa. 106:38)

Cross References

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Num. 13:27• 27And they told him, and said, We came to the land to which thou didst send us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. (Num. 13:27)
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Num. 14:7‑8• 7And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.
 8If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey; (Num. 14:7‑8)
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Deut. 6:10‑11,18• 10And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into the land which he swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee: great and good cities which thou buildedst not,
 11and houses full of everything good which thou filledst not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and oliveyards which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt have eaten and shalt be full;
 18And thou shalt do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest enter in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers, (Deut. 6:10‑11,18)
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Deut. 8:7‑9• 7For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills;
 8a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
 9a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper. (Deut. 8:7‑9)
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Deut. 11:11‑12• 11but the land, whereunto ye are passing over to possess it, is a land of mountains and valleys, which drinketh water of the rain of heaven,
 12a land which Jehovah thy God careth for; the eyes of Jehovah thy God are constantly upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. (Deut. 11:11‑12)
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Neh. 9:25• 25And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. (Neh. 9:25)
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Ezek. 20:6• 6in that day I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of all lands; (Ezek. 20:6)
a plentiful country.
or, the land of Carmel.
ye defiled.
Jer. 3:1,9• 1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.
 9And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (Jer. 3:1,9)
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Jer. 16:18• 18But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have profaned my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and with their abominations have they filled mine inheritance. (Jer. 16:18)
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Lev. 18:24‑28• 24Make not yourselves unclean in any of these things; for in all these have the nations which I am casting out before you made themselves unclean.
 25And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
 26But *ye* shall observe my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of all these abominations: the home-born, and the stranger that sojourneth among you;
 27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean);
 28that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. (Lev. 18:24‑28)
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Num. 35:33‑34• 33And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
 34And ye shall not defile the land that ye inhabit, in the midst whereof I dwell; for I am Jehovah who dwell in the midst of the children of Israel. (Num. 35:33‑34)
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Deut. 21:23• 23his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day (for he that is hanged is a curse of God); and thou shalt not defile thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. (Deut. 21:23)
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Psa. 78:58‑59• 58And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
 59God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: (Psa. 78:58‑59)
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Psa. 106:38‑39• 38And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
 39And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings. (Psa. 106:38‑39)
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Ezek. 36:17• 17Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a woman in her separation. (Ezek. 36:17)
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Mic. 2:10• 10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction. (Mic. 2:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I brought you into a fruitful landa, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; and ye entered and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

JND Translation Notes

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Heb. "land of Carmel"; as ch. 4.26.