Jeremiah 51:40

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In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.	I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.	How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

I will bring them down^H3381 like lambs^H3733 to the slaughter^H2873, like rams^H352 with he goats^H6260.

Original Hebrew

אֹורִידֵם כְּכָרִים לִטְבֹוחַ כְּאֵילִים עִם־עַתּוּדִים׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אֽוֹרִידֵ֖/ם	'o.ri.De/m	H3381	HVhi1cs/Sp3mp	I will bring down/ them
כְּ/כָרִ֣ים	ke./kha.Rim	H3733	HR/Ncmpa	like/ lambs
לִ/טְב֑וֹחַ	li/t.Vo.ach	H2873	HR/Vqc	to/ slaughter
כְּ/אֵילִ֖ים	ke./'ei.Lim	H352	HR/Ncmpa	like/ rams
עִם	'im-	H5973	HR	with
עַתּוּדִֽים	'a.tu.Dim	H6260	HNcmpa	goats

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

Strong's References

H352 — אַיִל (ʼayil, ah'-yil): from the same as אוּל; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree; mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
H2873 — טָבַח (ṭâbach, taw-bakh'): a primitive root; to slaughter (animals or men); kill, (make) slaughter, slay.
H3381 — יָרַד (yârad, yaw-rad'): a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications); [idiom] abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, [idiom] indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
H3733 — כַּר (kar, kar): from כָּרַר in the sense of plumpness; a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a battering-ram (as butting); hence, a meadow (as for sheep); also a pad or camel's saddle (as puffed out); captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also בֵּית כַּר, כָּרִי.
H6260 — עַתּוּד (ʻattûwd, at-tood'): or עַתֻּד; from עָתַד; prepared, i.e. full grown; spoken only (in plural) of he-goats, or (figuratively) leaders of the people; chief one, (he) goat, ram.

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

H5973 — עִם (ʻim, eem): from עָמַם; adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English); accompanying, against, and, as ([idiom] long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with(-al).

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