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Jeremiah 4

Jer. 4:31 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For I have heard
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
a voice
qowl (Hebrew #6963)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
KJV usage: + aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
Pronounce: kole
Origin: or qol {kole}
as of a woman in travail
chalah (Hebrew #2470)
properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat
KJV usage: beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
Pronounce: khaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2342, 2470, 2490)
, and the anguish
tsarah (Hebrew #6869)
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival
KJV usage: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsaw-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6862
as of her that bringeth forth her first child
bakar (Hebrew #1069)
properly, to burst the womb, i.e. (causatively) bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree); also (as denominative from 1061) to give the birthright
KJV usage: make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).
Pronounce: baw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
, the voice
qowl (Hebrew #6963)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
KJV usage: + aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
Pronounce: kole
Origin: or qol {kole}
of the daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of Zion
Tsiyown (Hebrew #6726)
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
KJV usage: Zion.
Pronounce: tsee-yone'
Origin: the same (regularly) as 6725
, that bewaileth
yaphach (Hebrew #3306)
properly, to breathe hard, i.e. (by implication) to sigh
KJV usage: bewail self.
Pronounce: yaw-fakh'
Origin: a primitive root
herself, that spreadeth
paras (Hebrew #6566)
to break apart, disperse, etc.
KJV usage: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
Pronounce: paw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
herh hands
kaph (Hebrew #3709)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
KJV usage: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
Pronounce: kaf
Origin: from 3721
, saying, Woe
'owy (Hebrew #188)
lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!
KJV usage: alas, woe.
Pronounce: o'-ee
Origin: probably from 183 (in the sense of crying out after)
is me now! for my soul
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
is wearied
`ayeph (Hebrew #5888)
to languish
KJV usage: be wearied.
Pronounce: aw-yafe'
Origin: a primitive root
because of murderers
harag (Hebrew #2026)
to smite with deadly intent
KJV usage: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), X surely.
Pronounce: haw-rag'
Origin: a primitive root
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Isa. 1:15• 15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:15)
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Lam. 1:17• 17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her:{HR}Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him:{HR}Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. (Lam. 1:17)

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Daughter,
Murder,
Soul; Spirit,
Woe,
Woman,
Zion; Sion; Mount Zion

Cross References

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I have heard.
Jer. 6:24• 24{i}We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth.{/i} (Jer. 6:24)
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Jer. 13:21• 21What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? (Jer. 13:21)
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Jer. 22:23• 23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! (Jer. 22:23)
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Jer. 30:6• 6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? (Jer. 30:6)
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Jer. 48:41• 41Kerioth is taken and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (Jer. 48:41)
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Jer. 49:22,24• 22Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
 24Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. (Jer. 49:22,24)
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Jer. 50:43• 43The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. (Jer. 50:43)
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Isa. 13:8• 8and they shall be dismayed: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall writhe as a woman in travail; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flames. (Isa. 13:8)
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Isa. 21:3• 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed down so as not to hear; I am dismayed so as not to see. (Isa. 21:3)
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Hos. 13:13• 13{i}The pangs of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is a son not wise; for at the time of the breaking forth of children, he was not there.{/i} (Hos. 13:13)
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1 Thess. 5:3• 3When they are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh on them as the pain on her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape. (1 Thess. 5:3)
the voice.
Jer. 6:2,23• 2{i}The comely and delicate one do I cut off, the daughter of Zion.{/i}
 23{i}They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for the battle, against thee, daughter of Zion.{/i} (Jer. 6:2,23)
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Matt. 21:5• 5{i}Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy King cometh to thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.{/i} (Matt. 21:5)
spreadeth.
Isa. 1:15• 15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:15)
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Lam. 1:17• 17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her:{HR}Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him:{HR}Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. (Lam. 1:17)
Woe.
Jer. 10:19• 19{i}Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is my grief, and I will bear it.{/i} (Jer. 10:19)
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Jer. 15:18• 18{i}Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous spring, as waters that fail?{/i} (Jer. 15:18)
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Jer. 45:2• 2Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; (Jer. 45:2)
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Psa. 120:5• 5Alas for me, that I sojourn [in] Mesech,{HR}That I dwell with the tents of Kedar! (Psa. 120:5)
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Isa. 6:5• 5Then said I, Woe to me! for I am undone; for I [am] a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)
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Mic. 7:1• 1Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit. (Mic. 7:1)
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1 Cor. 9:16• 16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast, for necessity is laid upon me, for woe is to me if I preach not the gospel. (1 Cor. 9:16)
for my.
Gen. 27:46• 46And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life be to me? (Gen. 27:46)
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Job 10:1• 1My soul is weary of my life;{HR}I will give way to my plaint,{HR}I will speak in the bitterness of my soul, (Job 10:1)
because.
Jer. 14:18• 18{i}If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not.{/i} (Jer. 14:18)
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Jer. 18:21• 21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. (Jer. 18:21)
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Lam. 1:20• 20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled;{HR}Mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:{HR}Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. (Lam. 1:20)
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Lam. 2:21• 21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:{HR}My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;{HR}Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. (Lam. 2:21)
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Ezek. 9:5‑6• 5And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;
 6slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. (Ezek. 9:5‑6)
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Ezek. 23:46‑47• 46For thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
 47And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. (Ezek. 23:46‑47)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For I hear a voice, as of a woman in travail, anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion: she moaneth, she spreadeth forth her hands, saying, Woe unto me! for my soul faileth because of murderers.

W. Kelly Translation

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For I hear a voice, as of a woman in travail, anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion: she moaneth, she spreadeth forth her hands, saying , Woe unto me! for my soul faileth because of murderers.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)