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Jeremiah 12

Jer. 12:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But thou, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, knowest
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
e me: thou hast seen
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
me, and tried
bachan (Hebrew #974)
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
KJV usage: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
Pronounce: baw-khan'
Origin: a primitive root
mine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
βtoward thee: pull them out
nathaq (Hebrew #5423)
to tear off
KJV usage: break (off), burst, draw (away), lift up, pluck (away, off), pull (out), root out.
Pronounce: naw-thak'
Origin: a primitive root
like sheep
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
for the slaughter
tibehah (Hebrew #2878)
feminine of 2874 and meaning the same
KJV usage: flesh, slaughter.
Pronounce: tib-khaw'
, and prepare
qadash (Hebrew #6942)
to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
KJV usage: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), X wholly.
Pronounce: kaw-dash'
Origin: a primitive root
them for the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of slaughter
haregah (Hebrew #2028)
slaughter
KJV usage: slaughter.
Pronounce: har-ay-gaw'
Origin: feminine of 2027
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Psa. 17:3• 3Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited [me] by night;{HR}Thou hast refined me; thou shalt find nothing;{HR}I have purposed, my mouth shall not transgress. (Psa. 17:3)
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Psa. 139:1,23• 1To the chief musician: a psalm of David.{HR}Jehovah, thou hast searched me and knowest.
 23Search me, O God, and know my heart;{HR}Prove me, and know my thoughts; (Psa. 139:1,23)
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with.
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James 5:5• 5Ye lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. (James 5:5)

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Cross References

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Jer. 11:20• 20{i}But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.{/i} (Jer. 11:20)
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2 Kings 20:3• 3I beseech, O Jehovah, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. (2 Kings 20:3)
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1 Chron. 29:17• 17{i}And I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart have I willingly offered all these things; and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, offer willingly to thee.{/i} (1 Chron. 29:17)
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Job 23:10• 10But he knoweth the way, who is with me;{HR}He trieth me, as gold I come forth. (Job 23:10)
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Psa. 17:3• 3Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited [me] by night;{HR}Thou hast refined me; thou shalt find nothing;{HR}I have purposed, my mouth shall not transgress. (Psa. 17:3)
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Psa. 26:1• 1Of David.{HR}Judge me, O Jehovah,{HR}For I have walked in mine integrity,{HR}And in Jehovah have I trusted;{HR}I shall not be moved. (Psa. 26:1)
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Psa. 44:21• 21Will not God search this out?{HR}For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Psa. 44:21)
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Psa. 139:1,23• 1To the chief musician: a psalm of David.{HR}Jehovah, thou hast searched me and knowest.
 23Search me, O God, and know my heart;{HR}Prove me, and know my thoughts; (Psa. 139:1,23)
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John 21:17• 17He saith to him the third time, Simon [son] of Jonah, dost thou dearly love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Dost thou dearly love me? and he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I dearly love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep. (John 21:17)
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1 John 3:20‑21• 20that if our heart condemn us, [it is] that God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
 21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God, (1 John 3:20‑21)
toward.
or, with.
pull.
Jer. 17:18• 18{i}Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and break them with a double breaking{/i}. (Jer. 17:18)
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Jer. 18:21‑23• 21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
 22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
 23Yet thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. (Jer. 18:21‑23)
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Jer. 20:12• 12But, Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. (Jer. 20:12)
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Jer. 48:15• 15Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 48:15)
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Jer. 50:27• 27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. (Jer. 50:27)
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Jer. 51:4• 4Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. (Jer. 51:4)
the day.
Jer. 11:19• 19{i}And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.{/i} (Jer. 11:19)
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Psa. 44:22• 22But for thy sake we have been killed all the day,{HR}We have been counted as sheep for slaughter. (Psa. 44:22)
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James 5:5• 5Ye lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. (James 5:5)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proveda my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "tried," as ch. 11.20; Ps. 139.23.

W. Kelly Translation

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But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.