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Jeremiah 20

Jer. 20:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Becauseh he slew
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
me not from the womb
rechem (Hebrew #7358)
the womb (compare 7356)
KJV usage: matrix, womb.
Pronounce: rekh'-em
Origin: from 7355
; or that my mother
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
might have been my grave
qeber, (Hebrew #6913)
from 6912; a sepulchre
KJV usage: burying place, grave, sepulchre.
Pronounce: keh'-ber
Origin: or (feminine) qibrah {kib-raw'}
, and her womb
rechem (Hebrew #7358)
the womb (compare 7356)
KJV usage: matrix, womb.
Pronounce: rekh'-em
Origin: from 7355
to be always
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
great
hareh (Hebrew #2030)
from 2029; pregnant
KJV usage: (be, woman) with child, conceive, X great.
Pronounce: haw-reh'
Origin: or hariy (Hosea 14:1) {haw-ree'}
with me.
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Eccl. 6:3• 3If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he. (Eccl. 6:3)

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Cross References

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he slew.
Job 3:10‑11,16• 10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
 11Wherefore did I not die from the womb,--come forth from the belly and expire?
 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light. (Job 3:10‑11,16)
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Job 10:18‑19• 18And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
 19I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. (Job 10:18‑19)
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Eccl. 6:3• 3If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he. (Eccl. 6:3)

J. N. Darby Translation

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because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!