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Jeremiah 9

Jer. 9:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
of hosts
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'}
, the God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
; Behold, I will feed
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
m them, even this people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
, with wormwood
la`anah (Hebrew #3939)
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
KJV usage: hemlock, wormwood.
Pronounce: lah-an-aw'
Origin: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse
o, and give them water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
of gall
ro'sh (Hebrew #7219)
apparently the same as 7218; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
KJV usage: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: or rowsh (Deut. 32:32) {roshe}
to drink
shaqah (Hebrew #8248)
to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
KJV usage: cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See 7937, 8354.
Pronounce: shaw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 80:5• 5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. (Psa. 80:5)
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Lam. 3:15,19• 15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Lam. 3:15,19)

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Gall,
God,
Hemlock,
Israel,
Lord of Hosts,
Wormwood

Cross References

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Jer. 8:14• 14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord. (Jer. 8:14)
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Jer. 23:15• 15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:15)
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Jer. 25:15• 15For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. (Jer. 25:15)
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Psa. 60:3• 3Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. (Psa. 60:3)
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Psa. 69:21• 21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. (Psa. 69:21)
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Psa. 75:8• 8For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. (Psa. 75:8)
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Psa. 80:5• 5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. (Psa. 80:5)
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Isa. 2:17,22• 17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? (Isa. 2:17,22)
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Lam. 3:15,19• 15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Lam. 3:15,19)
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Rev. 8:11• 11And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. (Rev. 8:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,