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2 Kings 25

2 Kings 25:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But the captain
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
of the guard
tabbach (Hebrew #2876)
properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food)
KJV usage: cook, guard.
Pronounce: tab-bawkh'
Origin: from 2873
left
sha'ar (Hebrew #7604)
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
KJV usage: leave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
Pronounce: shaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
of the poor
dallah (Hebrew #1803)
properly, something dangling, i.e. a loose thread or hair; figuratively, indigent
KJV usage: hair, pining sickness, poor(-est sort).
Pronounce: dal-law'
Origin: from 1802
q of the 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
to be vinedressers
korem (Hebrew #3755)
a vinedresser
KJV usage: vine dresser (as one or two words).
Pronounce: ko-rame'
Origin: active participle of an imaginary denominative from 3754
and husbandmen
guwb (Hebrew #1461)
to dig
KJV usage: husbandman.
Pronounce: goob
Origin: a primitive root
yagab (Hebrew #3009)
to dig or plow
KJV usage: husbandman.
Pronounce: yaw-gab'
Origin: a primitive root
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2 Kings 24:14• 14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. (2 Kings 24:14)
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Jer. 40:7• 7Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; (Jer. 40:7)

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Cross References

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left of the poor.
2 Kings 24:14• 14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. (2 Kings 24:14)
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Jer. 39:10• 10But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. (Jer. 39:10)
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Jer. 40:7• 7Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; (Jer. 40:7)
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Jer. 52:16• 16But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. (Jer. 52:16)
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Ezek. 33:24• 24Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. (Ezek. 33:24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.