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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Against him that bendeth
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
let the archer
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
bend
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
his bow
qesheth (Hebrew #7198)
from 7185 in the original sense (of 6983) of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
KJV usage: X arch(-er), + arrow, bow((-man, -shot)).
Pronounce: keh'-sheth
, and against him that lifteth himself up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
in his brigandine
ciyron (Hebrew #5630)
a coat of mail
KJV usage: brigandine.
Pronounce: sir-yone'
Origin: for 8302
: and spare
chamal (Hebrew #2550)
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Pronounce: khaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
ye not her young men
bachuwr (Hebrew #970)
participle passive of 977; properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
KJV usage: (choice) young (man), chosen, X hole.
Pronounce: baw-khoor'
Origin: or bachur {baw-khoor'}
; destroy ye utterly
charam (Hebrew #2763)
to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose
KJV usage: make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
Pronounce: khaw-ram'
Origin: a primitive root
all her host
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
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Cross References

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Jer. 50:14,41‑42• 14Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against Jehovah.
 41Behold, a people cometh from the north, and a great nation. And many kings shall arise from the uttermost parts of the earth.
 42They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel, and will not shew mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses--set in array like a man for the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. (Jer. 50:14,41‑42)
brigandine.
Jer. 46:4• 4Harness the horses, and mount ye horsemen, and stand forth with helmets; polish the spears, put on the coats of mail! (Jer. 46:4)
spare.
Jer. 9:21• 21For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways. (Jer. 9:21)
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Jer. 50:27,30• 27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
 30Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets; and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 50:27,30)
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Deut. 32:25• 25From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror--Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs. (Deut. 32:25)
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Psa. 137:9• 9Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock. (Psa. 137:9)
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Isa. 13:10‑18• 10For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
 11And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.
 12I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.
 13Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
 14And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.
 15All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league with them shall fall by the sword.
 16And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.
 17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.
 18And their bows shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb: their eye shall not spare children. (Isa. 13:10‑18)
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James 2:13• 13for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment. (James 2:13)
destroy.
Jer. 50:21• 21Go up against the land of double rebellion, against it, and against the inhabitants of visitation; waste and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. (Jer. 50:21)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail; and spare not her young men: destroy utterly all her host.