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Jeremiah 50:23

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A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.	How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!	I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

How is the hammer^H6360 of the whole earth^H776 cut asunder^H1438 and broken^H7665! how is Babylon^H894 become a desolation^H8047 among the nations^H1471!

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Original Hebrew

אֵיךְ נִגְדַּע וַיִּשָּׁבֵר פַּטִּישׁ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ אֵיךְ הָיְתָה לְשַׁמָּה בָּבֶל בַּגֹּויִם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אֵ֤יךְ	'eikh	H349	HTi	how!
נִגְדַּע֙	nig.Da'	H1438	HVNp3ms	it has been cut off
וַ/יִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר	va/i.yi.sha.Ver	H7665	HC/VNw3ms	and/ it has been broken
פַּטִּ֖ישׁ	pa.Tish	H6360	HNcmsc	(the) hammer of
כָּל	kol-	H3605	HNcmsc	all
הָ/אָ֑רֶץ	ha./'A.retz	H776	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ earth
אֵ֣יךְ	'eikh	H349	HTi	how!
הָיְתָ֧ה	ha.ye.Tah	H1961	HVqp3fs	it has become
לְ/שַׁמָּ֛ה	le./sha.Mah	H8047	HR/Ncfsa	(into)/ a horror
בָּבֶ֖ל	ba.Vel	H894	HNp	Babylon
בַּ/גּוֹיִֽם	ba./go.Yim	H1471	HRd/Ncmpa	among the/ nations

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
• H894 — בָּבֶל (Bâbel, baw-bel'): from בָּלַל; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire; Babel, Babylon.
• H1438 — גָּדַע (gâdaʻ, gaw-dah'): a primitive root; to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything; cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
• H1471 — גּוֹי (gôwy, go'-ee): rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts; Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
• H6360 — פַּטִּישׁ (paṭṭîysh, pat-teesh'): intensively from an unused root meaning to pound; a hammer; hammer.
• H7665 — שָׁבַר (shâbar, shaw-bar'): a primitive root; to burst (literally or figuratively); break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, [idiom] quite, tear, view (by mistake for שָׂבַר).
• H8047 — שַׁמָּה (shammâh, sham-maw'): from שָׁמֵם; ruin; by implication, consternation; astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H349 — אֵיךְ (ʼêyk, ake): also אֵיכָה ; and אֵיכָכָה ; prolonged from אַי; how? or how!; also where; how, what.
• H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.
• H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).

Cross References

Reciprocal references (8): Isaiah 14:16, Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 50:26, Jeremiah 51:37, Jeremiah 51:41, Lamentations 1:1, Obadiah 1:5, Nahum 2:1

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: HAMMERS
• Nave’s: HAMMER

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