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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 an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. (Eccl. 6:3)

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Cross References

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Job 3:10‑11,16• 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. (Job 3:10‑11,16)
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Job 10:18‑19• 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
 19I should have been 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 an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that 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!