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Jeremiah 17

Jer. 17:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For he shall be as a tree
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
i planted
shathal (Hebrew #8362)
to transplant
KJV usage: plant.
Pronounce: shaw-thal'
Origin: a primitive root
by the waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, and that spreadeth out
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
her roots
sheresh (Hebrew #8328)
a root (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bottom, deep, heel, root.
Pronounce: sheh'-resh
Origin: from 8327
by the river
yuwbal (Hebrew #3105)
a stream
KJV usage: river.
Pronounce: yoo-bal'
Origin: from 2986
, 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 heat
chom (Hebrew #2527)
heat
KJV usage: heat, to be hot (warm).
Pronounce: khome
Origin: from 2552
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 her leaf
`aleh (Hebrew #5929)
a leaf (as coming up on a tree); collectively, foliage
KJV usage: branch, leaf.
Pronounce: aw-leh'
Origin: from 5927
shall be green
ra`anan (Hebrew #7488)
verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous
KJV usage: green, flourishing.
Pronounce: rah-an-awn'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be green
; and shall not be careful
da'ag (Hebrew #1672)
be anxious
KJV usage: be afraid (careful, sorry), sorrow, take thought.
Pronounce: daw-ag'
Origin: a primitive root
in the year
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of γdrought
batstsoreth (Hebrew #1226)
restraint (of rain), i.e. drought
KJV usage: dearth, drought.
Pronounce: bats-tso'-reth
Origin: feminine intensive from 1219
, neither shall cease
muwsh (Hebrew #4185)
to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
KJV usage: cease, depart, go back, remove, take away.
Pronounce: moosh
Origin: a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as 4184 through the idea of receding by contact)
from yielding
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
fruit
priy (Hebrew #6529)
fruit (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bough, ((first-)) fruit((-ful)), reward.
Pronounce: per-ee'
Origin: from 6509
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Psa. 1:3• 3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Psa. 1:3)
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or, restraint.

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Cross References

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Job 8:16• 16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. (Job 8:16)
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Psa. 1:3• 3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Psa. 1:3)
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Psa. 92:10‑15• 10But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
 11Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
 12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
 13Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
 14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
 15To show that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. (Psa. 92:10‑15)
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Isa. 58:11• 11And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. (Isa. 58:11)
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Ezek. 31:4‑10• 4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
 5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
 6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
 7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
 9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
 10Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; (Ezek. 31:4‑10)
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Ezek. 47:12• 12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (Ezek. 47:12)
drought.
or, restraint.
Jer. 14:1• 1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. (Jer. 14:1)
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Jer. 14•  (Jer. 14)
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J. N. Darby Translation

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For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not seed when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.

JND Translation Notes

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According to others, "fear."