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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou art my battle axe
mappets (Hebrew #4661)
a smiter, i.e. a war club
KJV usage: battle ax.
Pronounce: map-pates'
Origin: from 5310
and weapons
kliy (Hebrew #3627)
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
KJV usage: armour ((-bearer)), artillery, bag, carriage, + furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, X one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, + psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, + whatsoever.
Pronounce: kel-ee'
Origin: from 3615
of war
milchamah (Hebrew #4421)
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
KJV usage: battle, fight(-ing), war((-rior)).
Pronounce: mil-khaw-maw'
Origin: from 3898 (in the sense of fighting)
: for ρwith thee will I break in pieces
naphats (Hebrew #5310)
to dash to pieces, or scatter
KJV usage: be beaten in sunder, break (in pieces), broken, dash (in pieces), cause to be discharged, dispersed, be overspread, scatter.
Pronounce: naw-fats'
Origin: a primitive root
g 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}
, and with thee will I destroy
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
kingdoms
mamlakah (Hebrew #4467)
dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
KJV usage: kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mam-law-kaw'
Origin: from 4427
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or, in, or, by.
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Isa. 41:15‑16• 15Behold, I have made thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
 16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 41:15‑16)
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Mic. 4:13• 13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people , and I will consecrate their gain unto Jehovah, and their substance unto Jehovah of the whole earth. (Mic. 4:13)

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Ax; Axe,
Battle Ax,
War,
Weapons

Cross References

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Jer. 50:23• 23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (Jer. 50:23)
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Isa. 10:5,15• 5Ho, Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation.
 15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up [him that is] not wood. (Isa. 10:5,15)
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Isa. 13:5• 5They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens—Jehovah and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth. (Isa. 13:5)
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Isa. 14:5‑6• 5Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers.
 6He that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, hath a persecution without restraint. (Isa. 14:5‑6)
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Isa. 37:26• 26Hast thou not heard long ago I have done it, how of ancient days I purposed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest waste fortified cities [to] ruinous heaps. (Isa. 37:26)
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Isa. 41:15‑16• 15Behold, I have made thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
 16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 41:15‑16)
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Mic. 4:13• 13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people , and I will consecrate their gain unto Jehovah, and their substance unto Jehovah of the whole earth. (Mic. 4:13)
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Zech. 9:13‑14• 13when I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
 14And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord Jehovah shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. (Zech. 9:13‑14)
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Matt. 22:7• 7And the king was wroth and, sending his troops, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. (Matt. 22:7)
with thee.
or, in thee, or, by thee.
break.
Jer. 25:9,11• 9I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. (Jer. 25:9,11)
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Jer. 27:5‑7• 5I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemeth meet unto me.
 6And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
 7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. (Jer. 27:5‑7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou art my maul, my weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms;

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou wasta my battle axe, weapons of war: with thee I have broken nations in pieces; and with thee I have destroyed kingdoms.

WK Translation Notes

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Not "art" as in the KJV.