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Numbers 24

Num. 24:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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God
'el (Hebrew #410)
strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
KJV usage: God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el."
Pronounce: ale
Origin: shortened from 352
brought him forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
out of Egypt
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
; he hath as it were the strength
tow`aphah (Hebrew #8443)
(only in plural collective) weariness, i.e. (by implication) toil (treasure so obtained) or speed
KJV usage: plenty, strength.
Pronounce: to-aw-faw'
Origin: from 3286
of an unicorn
r'em (Hebrew #7214)
or reym {rame}; or rem {rame}; from 7213; a wild bull (from its conspicuousness)
KJV usage: unicorn.
Pronounce: reh-ame'
Origin: or rieym {reh-ame'}
: he shall eat up
'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
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}
his enemies
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
, and shall break
garam (Hebrew #1633)
to be spare or skeleton-like; used only as a denominative from 1634; (causative) to bone, i.e. denude (by extensive, craunch) the bones
KJV usage: gnaw the bones, break.
Pronounce: gaw-ram'
Origin: a primitive root
m their bones
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
, and pierce
machats (Hebrew #4272)
to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy
KJV usage: dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.
Pronounce: maw-khats'
Origin: a primitive root
n them through with his arrows
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
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Psa. 2:9• 9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. (Psa. 2:9)
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Psa. 45:5• 5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. (Psa. 45:5)

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Arrows,
Egypt,
God,
unicorn

Cross References

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God.
Num. 21:5• 5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. (Num. 21:5)
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Num. 23:22• 22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. (Num. 23:22)
shall eat.
Num. 14:9• 9Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not. (Num. 14:9)
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Num. 23:24• 24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. (Num. 23:24)
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Deut. 7:1• 1When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; (Deut. 7:1)
break.
Psa. 2:9• 9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. (Psa. 2:9)
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Isa. 38:13• 13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. (Isa. 38:13)
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Jer. 50:17• 17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. (Jer. 50:17)
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Dan. 6:24• 24And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. (Dan. 6:24)
pierce.
Deut. 32:23,42• 23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
 42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. (Deut. 32:23,42)
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Psa. 21:12• 12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. (Psa. 21:12)
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Psa. 45:5• 5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. (Psa. 45:5)
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Jer. 50:9• 9For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. (Jer. 50:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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*God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strengthc of a buffaloc. He shall consume the nations his enemies, and breakd their bones, and with his arrows shall smite them in piecese.

JND Translation Notes

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c
See ch. 23.22, Notes e and f.
d
Or "gnaw."
e
Or "shall break their arrows."