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Jeremiah 48

Jer. 48:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Flee
nuwc (Hebrew #5127)
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
KJV usage: X abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, X hide, lift up a standard.
Pronounce: noos
Origin: a primitive root
a, save
malat (Hebrew #4422)
properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
KJV usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lat'
Origin: a primitive root
your lives
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
, and be
hayah (Hebrew #1961)
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
KJV usage: beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
Pronounce: haw-yaw
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1933)
like τthe heath
`arow`er (Hebrew #6176)
from 6209 reduplicated; a juniper (from its nudity of situation)
KJV usage: health.
Pronounce: ar-o-ayr'
Origin: or sarear {ar-awr'}
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
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Jer. 51:6• 6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. (Jer. 51:6)
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Mark 13:14‑16• 14But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not (he that reads, let him consider), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains,
 15and let him that is on the housetop not come down into the house, neither enter therein, to take away anything out of his house.
 16And let him that is in the field not turn back to take his garment. (Mark 13:14‑16)
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or, a naked tree.

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Heath,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Flee.
Jer. 51:6• 6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. (Jer. 51:6)
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Gen. 19:17• 17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. (Gen. 19:17)
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Psa. 11:1• 1To the chief musician, [a Psalm] of David.{HR}In Jehovah have I trusted:{HR}How say ye to my soul,{HR}Flee to your mountain [as] a bird? (Psa. 11:1)
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Prov. 6:4‑5• 4Give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eyelids;
 5Deliver thyself from the [hunter's] hand,{HR}And as a bird from the fowler's hand. (Prov. 6:4‑5)
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Matt. 24:16‑18• 16then let those in Judea flee unto the mountains;
 17let not him that is upon the house come down to take the things out of the house;
 18and let not him that is in the field return back to take his cloak. (Matt. 24:16‑18)
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Luke 3:7• 7He said therefore to the crowds which went out to be baptized by him, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath? (Luke 3:7)
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Luke 17:31‑33• 31In that day, he who shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
 32Remember Lot's wife.
 33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it. (Luke 17:31‑33)
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Heb. 6:18• 18intervened by an oath, that by two unchangeable things in which [it was] impossible that God should lie we might have strong encouragement that fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:18)
be like.
Jer. 17:6• 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. (Jer. 17:6)
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Job 30:3‑7• 3In them the prime was lost through want and hunger,{HR}Who yesterday were gnawing the desert, the waste, and the wild,
 4Plucking saltwort in the jungles, roots of broom their food.
 5At them, driven out of the midst, they hooted, as [at] a thief,
 6To dwell in the horror of glens, dens of the earth, and rocks.
 7Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles huddled, (Job 30:3‑7)
the heath.
or, a naked tree.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrubk in the wilderness.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a denuded person," as ch. 17.6.

W. Kelly Translation

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Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.