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Jeremiah 51:42

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How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!	The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.	Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

The sea^H3220 is come up^H5927 upon Babylon^H894: she is covered^H3680 with the multitude^H1995 of the waves^H1530 thereof.

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Original Hebrew

עָלָה עַל־בָּבֶל הַיָּם בַּהֲמֹון גַּלָּיו נִכְסָתָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
עָלָ֥ה	'a.Lah	H5927	HVqp3ms	it will go up
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	over
בָּבֶ֖ל	ba.Vel	H894	HNp	Babylon
הַ/יָּ֑ם	hai./Yam	H3220	HTd/Ncmsa	the/ sea
בַּ/הֲמ֥וֹן	ba./ha.Mon	H1995	HR/Ncmsc	with/ (the) tumult of
גַּלָּ֖י/ו	ga.La/v	H1530	HNcmpc/Sp3ms	waves/ its
נִכְסָֽתָה	nikh.Sa.tah	H3680	HVNp3fs	it will be covered

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

Strong's References

• H894 — בָּבֶל (Bâbel, baw-bel'): from בָּלַל; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire; Babel, Babylon.
• H1530 — גַּל (gal, gal): from גָּלַל; something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves); billow, heap, spring, wave.
• H1995 — הָמוֹן (hâmôwn, haw-mone'): or הָמֹן; (Ezekiel 5:7), from הָמָה; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth; abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.
• H3220 — יָם (yâm, yawm): from an unused root meaning to roar; 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; sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
• H3680 — כָּסָה (kâçâh, kaw-saw'): a primitive root; properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy); clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare כָּשָׂה.
• H5927 — עָלָה (ʻâlâh, aw-law'): a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative; arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, [idiom] mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, [phrase] perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.

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

• H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

Cross References

Reciprocal references (6): Isaiah 14:23, Isaiah 21:1, Isaiah 29:7, Jeremiah 51:64, Ezekiel 26:3, Daniel 11:10

Related Topics

• Nave’s: PERSIA, WAR

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