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Isaiah 17

Isa. 17:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
of Aroer
`Arow`er (Hebrew #6177)
or `Ar`owr {ar-ore'}; the same as 6176; nudity of situation; Aroer, the name of three places in or near Palestine
KJV usage: Aroer.
Pronounce: ar-o-ayr'
Origin: or `Aro`er {ar-o-ayr'}
are forsaken
`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
: they shall be for flocks
`eder (Hebrew #5739)
an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)
KJV usage: drove, flock, herd.
Pronounce: ay'-der
Origin: from 5737
, which shall lie down
rabats (Hebrew #7257)
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
KJV usage: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
Pronounce: raw-bats'
Origin: a primitive root
, and nonee shall make them afraid
charad (Hebrew #2729)
to shudder with terror; hence, to fear; also to hasten (with anxiety)
KJV usage: be (make) afraid, be careful, discomfit, fray (away), quake, tremble.
Pronounce: khaw-rad'
Origin: a primitive root
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Jer. 7:33• 33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. (Jer. 7:33)

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Aroer,
Flock

Cross References

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Aroer.
Num. 32:34• 34And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, (Num. 32:34)
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Deut. 2:36• 36From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us: (Deut. 2:36)
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Deut. 3:12• 12And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. (Deut. 3:12)
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Josh. 13:16• 16And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba; (Josh. 13:16)
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Jer. 48:19• 19O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? (Jer. 48:19)
they shall.
Isa. 5:17• 17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. (Isa. 5:17)
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Isa. 7:23‑25• 23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
 24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
 25And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. (Isa. 7:23‑25)
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Ezek. 25:5• 5And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. (Ezek. 25:5)
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Zeph. 2:6• 6And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. (Zeph. 2:6)
none.
Jer. 7:33• 33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. (Jer. 7:33)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.