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Jeremiah 2

Jer. 2:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A ηwild ass
pere' (Hebrew #6501)
from 6500 in the secondary sense of running wild; the onager
KJV usage: wild (ass).
Pronounce: peh'-reh
Origin: or pereh (Jeremiah 2:24) {peh'-reh}
θused
limmuwd (Hebrew #3928)
from 3925; instructed
KJV usage: accustomed, disciple, learned, taught, used.
Pronounce: lim-mood'
Origin: or limmud {lim-mood'}
to 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
, that snuffeth up
sha'aph (Hebrew #7602)
to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten
KJV usage: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.
Pronounce: shaw-af'
Origin: a primitive root
the wind
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
at κher pleasure
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
'avvah (Hebrew #185)
longing
KJV usage: desire, lust after, pleasure.
Pronounce: av-vaw'
Origin: from 183
; in her occasion
ta'anah (Hebrew #8385)
from 579; an opportunity or (subjectively) purpose
KJV usage: occasion.
Pronounce: tah-an-aw'
Origin: or tonanah {to-an-aw'}
who can λturn her away
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
? all they that seek
baqash (Hebrew #1245)
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Pronounce: baw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
her will not weary
ya`aph (Hebrew #3286)
to tire (as if from wearisome flight)
KJV usage: faint, cause to fly, (be) weary (self).
Pronounce: yaw-af'
Origin: a primitive root
themselves; in her month
chodesh (Hebrew #2320)
the new moon; by implication, a month
KJV usage: month(-ly), new moon.
Pronounce: kho'-desh
Origin: from 2318
they shall find
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
her.
η
or, O.
θ
taught.
κ
the desire of her heart.
λ
or, reverse it.

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Ass,
Months,
Wilderness,
Wind

Cross References

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A wild ass.
or, O wild ass, etc.
Jer. 14:6• 6And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. (Jer. 14:6)
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Job 11:12• 12Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass. (Job 11:12)
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Job 39:5‑8• 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
 6Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
 7He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Job 39:5‑8)
used.
Heb. taught.
her pleasure.
Heb. the desire of herheart.
turn her away.
or, reverse it.
in her mouth.
Jer. 2:27• 27saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us! (Jer. 2:27)
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Hos. 5:15• 15I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (Hos. 5:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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—a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.