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Jeremiah 49

Jer. 49:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Concerning Damascus
Dammeseq (Hebrew #1834)
or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek}; of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria
KJV usage: Damascus.
Pronounce: dam-meh'-sek
Origin: or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek}
a. Hamath
Chamath (Hebrew #2574)
walled; Chamath, a place in Syria
KJV usage: Hamath, Hemath.
Pronounce: kham-awth'
Origin: from the same as 2346
b is confounded
buwsh (Hebrew #954)
properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed
KJV usage: (be, make, bring to, cause, put to, with, a-)shamed(-d), be (put to) confounded(-fusion), become dry, delay, be long.
Pronounce: boosh
Origin: a primitive root
, and Arpad
'Arpad (Hebrew #774)
spread out; Arpad, a place in Syria
KJV usage: Arpad, Arphad.
Pronounce: ar-pawd'
Origin: from 7502
: for they have heard
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
tidings
shmuw`ah (Hebrew #8052)
something heard, i.e. an announcement
KJV usage: bruit, doctrine, fame, mentioned, news, report, rumor, tidings.
Pronounce: sehm-oo-aw'
Origin: feminine passive participle of 8074
: they are γfainthearted
muwg (Hebrew #4127)
to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
KJV usage: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft.
Pronounce: moog
Origin: a primitive root
; there is sorrow
d'agah (Hebrew #1674)
anxiety
KJV usage: care(-fulness), fear, heaviness, sorrow.
Pronounce: deh-aw-gaw'
Origin: from 1672
δon the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
; it cannot
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
be quiet
shaqat (Hebrew #8252)
to repose (usually figurative)
KJV usage: appease, idleness, (at, be at, be in, give) quiet(-ness), (be at, be in, give, have, take) rest, settle, be still.
Pronounce: shaw-kat'
Origin: a primitive root
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Isa. 17:1• 1The burden of Damascus. (Isa. 17:1)
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Amos 1:3‑5• 3Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
 4And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
 5And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah. (Amos 1:3‑5)
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Zech. 9:1‑2• 1The burden of the word of Jehovah in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward Jehovah;
 2and also on Hamath which bordereth thereon; on Tyre and Zidon, though she be very wise. (Zech. 9:1‑2)
b
Isa. 37:13• 13Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? (Isa. 37:13)
γ
melted.
δ
or, as on.

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Arpad; Arphad,
Damascus,
Hamath; Hemath,
Sea

Cross References

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Damascus.
Gen. 14:15• 15And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. (Gen. 14:15)
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Gen. 15:2• 2And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? (Gen. 15:2)
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1 Kings 11:24• 24and he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus. (1 Kings 11:24)
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Isa. 17:1‑3• 1The burden of Damascus.
 2The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down and none shall make [them] afraid.
 3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 17:1‑3)
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Isa. 37:13• 13Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? (Isa. 37:13)
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Amos 1:3‑5• 3Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
 4And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
 5And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah. (Amos 1:3‑5)
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Zech. 9:1‑2• 1The burden of the word of Jehovah in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward Jehovah;
 2and also on Hamath which bordereth thereon; on Tyre and Zidon, though she be very wise. (Zech. 9:1‑2)
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2 Cor. 11:32• 32In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king garrisoned the Damascenes' city to seize me; (2 Cor. 11:32)
Hamath.
Num. 13:21• 21And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towards Hamath. (Num. 13:21)
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2 Sam. 8:9• 9And Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer; (2 Sam. 8:9)
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2 Kings 17:24• 24And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and made them dwell in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in its cities. (2 Kings 17:24)
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2 Kings 18:34• 34Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? (2 Kings 18:34)
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2 Kings 19:13• 13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? (2 Kings 19:13)
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Isa. 10:9• 9[Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus? (Isa. 10:9)
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Isa. 11:11• 11And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isa. 11:11)
faint-hearted.
Heb. melted.
Deut. 20:8• 8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and shall say, What man is there that is timid and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as well as his heart. (Deut. 20:8)
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Deut. 20•  (Deut. 20)
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Josh. 2:11• 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. (Josh. 2:11)
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Josh. 14:8• 8And my brethren that had gone up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God. (Josh. 14:8)
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2 Sam. 17:10• 10and even the valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt; for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men. (2 Sam. 17:10)
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Isa. 13:7• 7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt, (Isa. 13:7)
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Nah. 2:10• 10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. (Nah. 2:10)
sorrow.
Isa. 57:20• 20But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt. (Isa. 57:20)
on the sea.
or, as on the sea.
Psa. 107:26‑27• 26They rise [to] the heavens,{HR}They sink [to] the depths;{HR}Their soul melteth with evil,
 27They reel and stagger like the drunkard,{HR}And all their wisdom is confounded. (Psa. 107:26‑27)
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Luke 8:23‑24• 23And as they sailed he fell asleep; and a sudden squall of wind came down on the lake; and they were being filled [with water], and were in jeopardy;
 24and coming to [him] they woke him up, saying, Master, master, we perish! Then he, rising up, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm. (Luke 8:23‑24)
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Luke 21:25‑26• 25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity, for at the roar of the sea and rolling waves,
 26men ready to die through fear and expectation of the things coming on the habitable earth; for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. (Luke 21:25‑26)
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Acts 27:20• 20And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm lay on, at last every hope that wished us saved was taken away. (Acts 27:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is distress on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

W. Kelly Translation

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Concerning Damascus: Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.