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2 Kings 7

2 Kings 7:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefore they arose
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
v and fled
nuwc (Hebrew #5127)
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
KJV usage: X abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, X hide, lift up a standard.
Pronounce: noos
Origin: a primitive root
in the twilight
nesheph (Hebrew #5399)
properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
KJV usage: dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.
Pronounce: neh'-shef
Origin: from 5398
, and left
`azab (Hebrew #5800)
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Pronounce: aw-zab'
Origin: a primitive root
their tents
'ohel (Hebrew #168)
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
KJV usage: covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: o'-hel
Origin: from 166
, and their horses
cuwc (Hebrew #5483)
from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
KJV usage: crane, horse((-back, -hoof)). Compare 6571.
Pronounce: soos
Origin: or cuc {soos}
, and their asses
chamowr (Hebrew #2543)
from 2560; a male ass (from its dun red)
KJV usage: (he)ass.
Pronounce: kham-ore'
Origin: or (shortened) chamor {kham-ore}
, even the camp
machaneh (Hebrew #4264)
an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)
KJV usage: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
Pronounce: makh-an-eh'
Origin: from 2583
as it was, and fled
nuwc (Hebrew #5127)
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
KJV usage: X abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, X hide, lift up a standard.
Pronounce: noos
Origin: a primitive root
for their life
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Psa. 14:5• 5There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous. (Psa. 14:5)
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Psa. 48:4‑6• 4For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;
 5They saw,--so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:
 6Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail. (Psa. 48:4‑6)
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Psa. 68:12• 12Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil. (Psa. 68:12)
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Prov. 21:1• 1The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is as brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. (Prov. 21:1)

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Cross References

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they arose.
Job 18:11• 11Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps. (Job 18:11)
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Psa. 48:4‑6• 4For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;
 5They saw,--so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:
 6Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail. (Psa. 48:4‑6)
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Psa. 68:12• 12Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil. (Psa. 68:12)
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Prov. 21:1• 1The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is as brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. (Prov. 21:1)
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Prov. 28:1• 1The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. (Prov. 28:1)
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Jer. 48:8‑9• 8And the waster shall come upon every city, that not a city shall escape; and the valley shall perish, and the plateau shall be destroyed: as Jehovah hath said.
 9Give wings unto Moab, that she may flee and get away; and the cities thereof shall become a desolation, without inhabitant. (Jer. 48:8‑9)
their horses.
Psa. 20:7‑8• 7Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we of the name of Jehovah our God.
 8They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright. (Psa. 20:7‑8)
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Psa. 33:17• 17The horse is a vain thing for safety; neither doth he deliver by his great power. (Psa. 33:17)
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Amos 2:14‑16• 14And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.
 15Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul;
 16and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah. (Amos 2:14‑16)
and fled for their life.
Num. 35:11‑12• 11then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.
 12And ye shall have these cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the assembly in judgment. (Num. 35:11‑12)
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Prov. 6:5• 5deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. (Prov. 6:5)
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Isa. 2:20• 20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isa. 2:20)
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Matt. 24:16‑18• 16then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;
 17let not him that is on the house come down to take the things out of his house;
 18and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment. (Matt. 24:16‑18)
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Heb. 6:18• 18that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they rose up and fled in the dusk, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, the camp as it was, and fled for their life.