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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 deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will 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, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains:
 15And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
 16And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up 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 deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will 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 forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. (Gen. 19:17)
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Psa. 11:1• 1<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> In the Lord put I 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 roe 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 them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:
 17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
 18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. (Matt. 24:16‑18)
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Luke 3:7• 7Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Luke 3:7)
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Luke 17:31‑33• 31In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
 32Remember Lot's wife.
 33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. (Luke 17:31‑33)
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Heb. 6:18• 18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (Heb. 6:18)
be like.
Jer. 17:6• 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. (Jer. 17:6)
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Job 30:3‑7• 3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
 4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
 5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
 6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
 7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were 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.