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Jeremiah 18

Jer. 18:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Willo a man leave
`azab (Hebrew #5800)
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Pronounce: aw-zab'
Origin: a primitive root
λthe snow
sheleg (Hebrew #7950)
snow (probably from its whiteness)
KJV usage: snow(-y).
Pronounce: sheh'-leg
Origin: from 7949
of Lebanon
Lbanown (Hebrew #3844)
(the) white mountain (from its snow); Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine
KJV usage: Lebanon.
Pronounce: leb-aw-nohn'
Origin: from 3825
which cometh from the rock
tsuwr (Hebrew #6697)
from 6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
KJV usage: edge, X (mighty) God (one), rock, X sharp, stone, X strength, X strong. See also 1049.
Pronounce: tsoor
Origin: or tsur {tsoor}
of the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
? or shall the cold
qar (Hebrew #7119)
cool; figuratively, quiet
KJV usage: cold, excellent (from the margin).
Pronounce: kar
Origin: contracted from an unused root meaning to chill
flowing
nazal (Hebrew #5140)
to drip, or shed by trickling
KJV usage: distil, drop, flood, (cause to) flow(-ing), gush out, melt, pour (down), running water, stream.
Pronounce: naw-zal'
Origin: a primitive root
waters
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)
that come from another place
zuwr (Hebrew #2114)
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
KJV usage: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).
Pronounce: zoor
Origin: a primitive root
be forsaken
nathash (Hebrew #5428)
to tear away
KJV usage: destroy, forsake, pluck (out, up, by the roots), pull up, root out (up), X utterly.
Pronounce: naw-thash'
Origin: a primitive root
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John 6:68• 68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (John 6:68)
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or, my fields for a rock, or, for the snow of Lebanon? shall the running waters be forsaken for the strange cold waters.

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Lebanon,
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John 6:68• 68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (John 6:68)
the snow, etc.
or, my fields for a rock, or for the snow ofLebanon?
shall the running waters be forsaken for the strange cold waters? Parkhurst renders, "Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?
or will the issuing cold flowing waters (from that mountain namely) be exhausted?"
(See Targ., LXX., and Vulg.)
No more could I fail my people if they trusted in me.
(Compare ch. 2:13.)
Maundrell says, "The chief benefit the mountain of Lebanon serves for, is, that by its exceeding height, it proves a conservatory for abundance of snow, which thawing in the heat of summer, affords supplies of water to the rivers and fountains in the valleys below."

J. N. Darby Translation

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Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the fielda? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried upb?

JND Translation Notes

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a
It may be translated, "Shall the snow of Lebanon be left which cometh from the rock of the field?"
b
Or "be abandoned."