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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou art my battle axe
mappets (Hebrew #4661)
a smiter, i.e. a war club
KJV usage: battle ax.
Pronounce: map-pates'
Origin: from 5310
and weapons
kliy (Hebrew #3627)
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
KJV usage: armour ((-bearer)), artillery, bag, carriage, + furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, X one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, + psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, + whatsoever.
Pronounce: kel-ee'
Origin: from 3615
of war
milchamah (Hebrew #4421)
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
KJV usage: battle, fight(-ing), war((-rior)).
Pronounce: mil-khaw-maw'
Origin: from 3898 (in the sense of fighting)
: for ρwith thee will I break in pieces
naphats (Hebrew #5310)
to dash to pieces, or scatter
KJV usage: be beaten in sunder, break (in pieces), broken, dash (in pieces), cause to be discharged, dispersed, be overspread, scatter.
Pronounce: naw-fats'
Origin: a primitive root
g the nations
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
, and with thee will I destroy
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
kingdoms
mamlakah (Hebrew #4467)
dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
KJV usage: kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mam-law-kaw'
Origin: from 4427
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or, in, or, by.
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Isa. 41:15‑16• 15Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;
 16thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 41:15‑16)
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Mic. 4:13• 13Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. (Mic. 4:13)

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Ax; Axe,
Battle Ax,
War,
Weapons

Cross References

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Jer. 50:23• 23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! (Jer. 50:23)
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Isa. 10:5,15• 5Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
 15--Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up him who is not wood! (Isa. 10:5,15)
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Isa. 13:5• 5They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens--Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation--to destroy the whole land. (Isa. 13:5)
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Isa. 14:5‑6• 5Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers.
 6He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly. (Isa. 14:5‑6)
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Isa. 37:26• 26Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. (Isa. 37:26)
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Isa. 41:15‑16• 15Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;
 16thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 41:15‑16)
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Mic. 4:13• 13Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. (Mic. 4:13)
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Zech. 9:13‑14• 13For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will raise up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and make thee like the sword of a mighty man.
 14And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will march with whirlwinds of the south. (Zech. 9:13‑14)
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Matt. 22:7• 7And when the king heard of it he was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. (Matt. 22:7)
with thee.
or, in thee, or, by thee.
break.
Jer. 25:9,11• 9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.
 11And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. (Jer. 25:9,11)
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Jer. 27:5‑7• 5I have made the earth, man and beast that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give them unto whom it seemeth right in mine eyes.
 6And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him.
 7And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land also come, when many nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude. (Jer. 27:5‑7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou art my maul, my weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms;