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Numbers 21

Num. 21:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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We have shot
yarah (Hebrew #3384)
{yaw-raw'}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
KJV usage: (+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Pronounce: yaw-raw'
Origin: or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara
at them; Heshbon
Cheshbown (Hebrew #2809)
Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Heshbon.
Pronounce: khesh-bone'
Origin: the same as 2808
is perished
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
even unto Dibon
Diybown (Hebrew #1769)
from 1727; pining
KJV usage: Dibon, the name of three places in Palestine:--Dibon. (Also, with 1410 added, Dibon-gad.)
Pronounce: dee-bome'
Origin: or (shortened) Diybon {dee-bone'}
g, and we have laid them waste
shamem (Hebrew #8074)
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Pronounce: shaw-mame'
Origin: a primitive root
even unto Nophah
Nophach (Hebrew #5302)
a gust; Nophach, a place in Moab
KJV usage: Nophah.
Pronounce: no'-fakh
Origin: from 5301
, which reacheth unto Medeba
Meydba' (Hebrew #4311)
water of quiet; Medeba, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Medeba.
Pronounce: may-deb-aw'
Origin: from 4325 and 1679
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Jer. 48:18,22• 18Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
 22And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, (Jer. 48:18,22)

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Dibon,
Heshbon,
Medeba,
Nophah

Cross References

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have shot.
Gen. 49:23• 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: (Gen. 49:23)
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2 Sam. 11:24• 24And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. (2 Sam. 11:24)
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Psa. 18:14• 14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. (Psa. 18:14)
Dibon.
Num. 32:34• 34And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, (Num. 32:34)
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Josh. 13:17• 17Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, (Josh. 13:17)
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Isa. 15:2,9• 2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
 9For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. (Isa. 15:2,9)
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Jer. 48:18,22• 18Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
 22And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, (Jer. 48:18,22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And we have shot at themc; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon; and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medebad.

JND Translation Notes

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c
Or "have laid them low."
d
Or "with fire unto Medeba."