KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Jeremiah 50:26 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “Come” | בֹּֽאוּ | To go or come (in a wide variety of applications) | Come |
| “against her from the utmost border,” | מִקֵּץ֙ | An extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after | against utmost border |
| “open” | פִּתְח֣וּ | To open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve | open |
| “her storehouses:” | מַאֲבֻסֶ֔יהָ | A granary | storehouses |
| “cast her up” | סָלּ֥וּהָ | To mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam) | cast up |
| “as heaps,” | עֲרֵמִ֖ים | A heap; specifically, a sheaf | heaps |
| “and destroy utterly:” | וְהַחֲרִימ֑וּהָ | To seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose | destroy utterly |
| “her let nothing” | אַל | Not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing | let nothing |
| “of her be” | תְּהִי | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | of her be |
| “left.” | שְׁאֵרִֽית׃ | A remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion | left |
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24 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.
25 The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.
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