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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, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
 5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
 6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. (Psa. 48:4‑6)
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Psa. 68:12• 12Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. (Psa. 68:12)
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Prov. 21:1• 1The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers 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 shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. (Job 18:11)
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Psa. 48:4‑6• 4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
 5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
 6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. (Psa. 48:4‑6)
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Psa. 68:12• 12Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. (Psa. 68:12)
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Prov. 21:1• 1The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers 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 spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord hath spoken.
 9Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. (Jer. 48:8‑9)
their horses.
Psa. 20:7‑8• 7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
 8They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. (Psa. 20:7‑8)
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Psa. 33:17• 17An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. (Psa. 33:17)
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Amos 2:14‑16• 14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
 15Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
 16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord. (Amos 2:14‑16)
and fled for their life.
Num. 35:11‑12• 11Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
 12And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. (Num. 35:11‑12)
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Prov. 6:5• 5Deliver thyself as a roe 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 a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isa. 2:20)
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Matt. 24:16‑18• 16Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:
 17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
 18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. (Matt. 24:16‑18)
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Heb. 6:18• 18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon 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.

W. Kelly 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.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)