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Jeremiah 18

Jer. 18:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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At what instant
rega` (Hebrew #7281)
from 7280. a wink (of the eyes), i.e. a very short space of time
KJV usage: instant, moment, space, suddenly.
Pronounce: reh'-gah
I shall speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
concerning a nation
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
, and concerning a kingdom
mamlakah (Hebrew #4467)
dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
KJV usage: kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mam-law-kaw'
Origin: from 4427
, to pluck up
nathash (Hebrew #5428)
to tear away
KJV usage: destroy, forsake, pluck (out, up, by the roots), pull up, root out (up), X utterly.
Pronounce: naw-thash'
Origin: a primitive root
, and to pull down
nathats (Hebrew #5422)
to tear down
KJV usage: beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-thats'
Origin: a primitive root
, and to destroy
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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to pluck.
Jer. 1:10• 10See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant. (Jer. 1:10)
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Jer. 12:14‑17• 14Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
 15And it shall come to pass, after I have plucked them up, I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land.
 16And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah liveth--even as they taught my people to swear by Baal--they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
 17And if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 12:14‑17)
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Jer. 25:9‑14• 9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.
 10And I will cause to perish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
 11And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
 12And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations.
 13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
 14For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. (Jer. 25:9‑14)
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Jer. 45:4• 4Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, what I have built do I overthrow, and what I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land. (Jer. 45:4)
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Amos 9:8• 8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth: only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah. (Amos 9:8)
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Jonah 3:4• 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown! (Jonah 3:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,