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2 Kings 2

2 Kings 2:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Bring
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
me a new
chadash (Hebrew #2319)
new
KJV usage: fresh, new thing.
Pronounce: khaw-dawsh'
Origin: from 2318
cruse
tslochiyth (Hebrew #6746)
something prolonged or tall, i.e. a vial or salt-cellar
KJV usage: cruse.
Pronounce: tsel-o-kheeth'
Origin: from 6743
, and put
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}
salt
melach (Hebrew #4417)
properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved
KJV usage: salt((-pit)).
Pronounce: meh'-lakh
Origin: from 4414
therein. And they brought
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
it to him.

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Cruse,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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salt therein.
Judg. 9:45• 45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. (Judg. 9:45)
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Ezek. 47:11• 11But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. (Ezek. 47:11)
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Zeph. 2:9• 9Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. (Zeph. 2:9)
• In order that a fountain of life could spring up there, salt in a new cruse was needed —true separation for God, contained in a new nature. This alone could undo the consequences of the corruption brought about by sin and by the disobedience of the people, for the Word does not speak of these corrupted waters until after Hiel’s disobedience (1 Kings 16:34). (“Elisha, or Christ in the Spirit: 2 Kings 2:13-25” by H.L. Rossier)
• The people of Jericho needed a new cruse and salt; they needed a new nature, sanctified for God, that the curse might be turned away from their city. (“The Prophet's Widow: 2 Kings 4:1-7” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt in it. And they brought it to him.