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Jeremiah 48

Jer. 48:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Flee
nuwc (Hebrew #5127)
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
KJV usage: X abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, X hide, lift up a standard.
Pronounce: noos
Origin: a primitive root
a, save
malat (Hebrew #4422)
properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
KJV usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lat'
Origin: a primitive root
your lives
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
, and be
hayah (Hebrew #1961)
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
KJV usage: beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
Pronounce: haw-yaw
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1933)
like τthe heath
`arow`er (Hebrew #6176)
from 6209 reduplicated; a juniper (from its nudity of situation)
KJV usage: health.
Pronounce: ar-o-ayr'
Origin: or sarear {ar-awr'}
in 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
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Jer. 51:6• 6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall render unto her a recompence. (Jer. 51:6)
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Mark 13:14‑16• 14But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not, (he that reads let him consider it,) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains;
 15and him that is upon the housetop not come down into the house, nor enter into it to take away anything out of his house;
 16and him that is in the field not return back to take his garment. (Mark 13:14‑16)
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or, a naked tree.

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Heath,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Flee.
Jer. 51:6• 6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall render unto her a recompence. (Jer. 51:6)
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Gen. 19:17• 17And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish. (Gen. 19:17)
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Psa. 11:1• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? (Psa. 11:1)
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Prov. 6:4‑5• 4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
 5deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. (Prov. 6:4‑5)
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Matt. 24:16‑18• 16then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;
 17let not him that is on the house come down to take the things out of his house;
 18and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment. (Matt. 24:16‑18)
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Luke 3:7• 7He said therefore to the crowds which went out to be baptised by him, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath? (Luke 3:7)
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Luke 17:31‑33• 31In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
 32Remember the wife of Lot.
 33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it. (Luke 17:31‑33)
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Heb. 6:18• 18that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:18)
be like.
Jer. 17:6• 6And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. (Jer. 17:6)
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Job 30:3‑7• 3Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
 4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
 5They are driven forth from among men--they cry after them as after a thief--
 6To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
 7They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together: (Job 30:3‑7)
the heath.
or, a naked tree.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrubk in the wilderness.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a denuded person," as ch. 17.6.