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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Prepare
qadash (Hebrew #6942)
to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
KJV usage: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), X wholly.
Pronounce: kaw-dash'
Origin: a primitive root
against her 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}
with the kings
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of the Medes
Maday (Hebrew #4074)
Madai, a country of central Asia
KJV usage: Madai, Medes, Media.
Pronounce: maw-dah'-ee
Origin: of foreign derivation
l, the captains
pechah (Hebrew #6346)
a prefect (of a city or small district)
KJV usage: captain, deputy, governor.
Pronounce: peh-khaw'
Origin: of foreign origin
thereof, and all the rulers
cagan (Hebrew #5461)
a prefect of a province
KJV usage: prince, ruler.
Pronounce: saw-gawn'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to superintend
thereof, and all the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of his dominion
memshalah (Hebrew #4475)
rule; also (concretely in plural) a realm or a ruler
KJV usage: dominion, government, power, to rule.
Pronounce: mem-shaw-law'
Origin: feminine of 4474
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Jer. 51:11• 11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. (Jer. 51:11)

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Medes; Media

Cross References

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Jer. 51:11• 11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. (Jer. 51:11)
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Jer. 25:25• 25And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, (Jer. 25:25)
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Gen. 10:2• 2The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. (Gen. 10:2)
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1 Chron. 1:5• 5The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. (1 Chron. 1:5)
Madia.
Esther 1:3• 3In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: (Esther 1:3)
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Esther 10:2• 2And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? (Esther 10:2)
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Isa. 13:17• 17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. (Isa. 13:17)
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Isa. 21:2• 2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. (Isa. 21:2)
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Dan. 5:28‑30• 28PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
 29Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
 30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (Dan. 5:28‑30)
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Dan. 6:8• 8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. (Dan. 6:8)
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Dan. 8:3‑4,20• 3Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
 4I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
 20The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. (Dan. 8:3‑4,20)
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Dan. 9:1• 1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; (Dan. 9:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Prepared nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their dominion.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "hallow." see ch. 6.4.