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Jeremiah 17

Jer. 17:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For he shall be like the heath
`ar`ar (Hebrew #6199)
naked, i.e. (figuratively) poor
KJV usage: destitute. See also 6176.
Pronounce: ar-awr'
Origin: from 6209
in the desert
`arabah (Hebrew #6160)
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.
Pronounce: ar-aw-baw'
Origin: from 6150 (in the sense of sterility)
, and shall not see
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
when good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
cometh
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
; but shall inhabit
shakan (Hebrew #7931)
to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to) remain, rest, set (up).
Pronounce: shaw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root (apparently akin (by transmission) to 7901 through the idea of lodging; compare 5531, 7925)
the parched places
charer (Hebrew #2788)
arid
KJV usage: parched place.
Pronounce: khaw-rare'
Origin: from 2787
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, in a salt
mlechah (Hebrew #4420)
properly, salted (i.e. land (776 being understood)), i.e. a desert
KJV usage: barren land(-ness), salt (land).
Pronounce: mel-ay-khaw'
Origin: from 4414 (in its denominative sense)
g 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
and not inhabited
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
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Judg. 9:45• 45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. (Judg. 9:45)

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Desert,
Heath,
Salt,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Jer. 48:6• 6Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. (Jer. 48:6)
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Job 8:11‑13• 11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
 12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
 13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: (Job 8:11‑13)
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Job 15:30‑34• 30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
 31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
 32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
 34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. (Job 15:30‑34)
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Psa. 1:4• 4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. (Psa. 1:4)
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Psa. 92:7• 7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: (Psa. 92:7)
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Psa. 129:6‑8• 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
 8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord. (Psa. 129:6‑8)
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Isa. 1:30• 30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. (Isa. 1:30)
and shall.
2 Kings 7:2,19‑20• 2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
 19And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
 20And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died. (2 Kings 7:2,19‑20)
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Job 20:17• 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. (Job 20:17)
a salt.
Deut. 29:23• 23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: (Deut. 29:23)
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Judg. 9:45• 45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. (Judg. 9:45)
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Ezek. 47:11• 11But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. (Ezek. 47:11)
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Zeph. 2:9• 9Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. (Zeph. 2:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he shall be like the heathc in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a denuded (or, forlorn) [man]"; as ch. 48.6.