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Lexicon :: Strong's H2763 - ḥāram

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חָרַם
Transliteration
ḥāram
Pronunciation
khaw-ram'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 744,745

Strong’s Definitions

חָרַם châram, khaw-ram'; a primitive root; to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose:—make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 52x

The KJV translates Strong's H2763 in the following manner: destroy (34x), utterly (10x), devote (2x), accursed (1x), consecrate (1x), forfeited (1x), flat nose (1x), utterly to make away (1x), slay (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 52x
The KJV translates Strong's H2763 in the following manner: destroy (34x), utterly (10x), devote (2x), accursed (1x), consecrate (1x), forfeited (1x), flat nose (1x), utterly to make away (1x), slay (1x).

  1. to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate

    1. (Hiphil)

      1. to prohibit (for common use), ban

      2. to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction

      3. to exterminate, completely destroy

    2. (Hophal)

      1. to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction

      2. to be devoted, be forfeited

      3. to be completely destroyed

  2. to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)

    1. (Qal) to mutilate

    2. (Hiphil) to divide

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָרַם châram, khaw-ram'; a primitive root; to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose:—make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
STRONGS H2763: Abbreviations
† I. [חָרַם] verb
Hiph. ban, devote, exterminate (MI17 החרמתה of devoting, dedicating a city to Chemosh, in clause with כי explaining massacre of all inhabitants; the altar-hearth of י׳ there was dragged before Chemosh; حَرُمَ be prohibited, forbidden, unlawful, become sacred; II. make, pronounce sacred, inviolable; Ethiopic ሐረመ፡ prohibit from common use, consecrate to God, esteem unlawful; Palmyrene חרם ＝consacré VogNo 35; Nabataean id., Eutp. 28; Sabean מחרם sanctuary, temple, OsZMG 1865, 176. 252, חרמתן DHMZMG 1875, 594; Aramaic אַחֲרִים, and especially MeroAf  anathematize, excommunicate; see also WeSkizzen iii, 165, DrSm 100 ff., RSSemitic i. 140 (150)) —
Hiph. Perfect הֶהֱרִים Joshua 8:26 + 5 times; הֶחֱרִם Joshua 10:28; 2nd person masculine singular וְהַחֲרַמְתָּ֫ה 1 Samuel 15:18; 1st person singular הֶחֱרַמְתִּי 1 Samuel 15:20; וְהַחֲרַמְתִּ֫י Numbers 21:2; 2nd person feminine singular וְהַחֲרַמְתְּ(י) consecutive Micah 4:13 (so Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Syriac Version Targum RV most; MT 1st person singular), see Ges§ 44, R. 4; plural הֶחֱרִימוּ 1 Samuel 15:9; 2 Chronicles 32:14 etc.; (1 Samuel 15:3 read והחרמתו Greek Version of the LXX We Dr); Imperfect יַחֲרִם Leviticus 27:28; וַיַּחֲרֵם Numbers 21:3; Joshua 10:37; suffix וַיַּחֲרִימָהּ Joshua 10:1; 1st person plural וַנַּחֲרֵם Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 3:6 etc.; Imperative הַחֲרֵם Deuteronomy 13:16; plural הַחֲרִימוּ Jeremiah 51:3; suffix הַחֲרִימוּהָ Jeremiah 50:26; Infinitive absolute הַחֲרֵם Deuteronomy 3:6 + 4 times; construct הַחֲרִים 2 Chronicles 20:23; Daniel 11:44; suffix הַחֲרִימָם Joshua 11:20 + 4 times; — ban, devote (especially religiously, followed by objects hostile to the theocracy [see especially Exodus 22:19 Hoph.]; this involved generally their destruction; when a city was 'devoted' the inhabitants were put to death, the spoil being destroyed or not according to the gravity of the occasion [contrast Joshua 6:17, 21; 1 Samuel 15:3 with Deuteronomy 2:34f. Deuteronomy 3:6, 7], compare MI17 לעשתר כמש החרמתה to Ashtar-Chemosh I devoted it, i.e. the city Nebo); —
1. most often of devoting to destruction cities of Canaanites and other neighbours of Israel, exterminating inhabitants, and destroying or appropriating their possessions:
a. Israel and her leaders subject Numbers 21:2, 3(destruction according to vow), Joshua 6:21 (compare חֵרֶם ליהוה Joshua 6:17; all J); in Joshua 6:18 read תַּחְמְדוּ (for MT תַּחֲרִימוּ, see Di VB); Joshua 8:26 (Greek Version of the LXX, not LXX of Lucian (Lag.), omit verse), Joshua 10:1 (JE), Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 3:6 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 7:2 (twice in verse) (commanded through Moses, compare for underlying thought Deuteronomy 7:4; Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 7:6), Deuteronomy 20:17 (twice in verse) (commanded by י׳), Joshua 2:10; Joshua 10:28, 35, 37, 39, 40 (divine command), Joshua 11:11, 12, 20, 21 (divine command Joshua 11:12; Joshua 11:20; all D), 1 Samuel 15:3, 8, 9 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 15:15, 18, 20 (divine command 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 15:18; 1 Samuel 15:20, compare 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 15:23); quite secondary is simple exterminate 1 Kings 9:21; 1 Chronicles 4:41.
b. secondary meaning destroy, exterminate, also with other nations subject: — 2 Kings 19:11 ＝Isaiah 37:11 2 Chronicles 32:14; 20:23; Jeremiah 50:21, 26 (both by divine command), Jeremiah 51:3; Daniel 11:44.
c. God as subject, figurative all nations and their armies Isaiah 34:2; the nations of Western Asia Jeremiah 25:9; the tongue of the Egyptian sea (by drying it up) Isaiah 11:15 (but read perhaps החריב with Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Targum).
d. so also of devoting even Israelites: a city of Israel for worshipping other gods Deuteronomy 13:16; residents of Jabesh-Gilead for not joining in campaign against Benjamin Judges 21:11.
2. devote to י׳ : for sacred uses החרים ליהוה the spoil of the nations Micah 4:13; private possessions, whether a man, animal, or field Leviticus 27:28 (P).
Hoph. Imperfect יָחֳרַם Leviticus 27:29; Ezra 10:8; יָחֳרָ֑ם Exodus 22:19; —
1. be put under the ban, devoted (to death), for worshipping other gods than י׳ Exodus 22:19 (J E; earliest use of word in OT); for some other theocratic offence Leviticus 27:29 (P; see Di).
2. devoted, i.e. forfeited, to the temple treasures Ezra 10:8. — On חרם see especially Di (Kn) Leviticus 27:28; EwAntiq. 75. 78, Dr 1 Samuel 15:33.

† II. [חָרַם] verb slit (nose, lip, ear, etc.), mutilate, especially face (Arabic خَرَمَ perforate, pierce, slit the partition between the nostrils, or the lip, or the lobe of the ear) —
Qal Passive participle עִוֵּר אִישׁ שָׂרוּעַ אוֹ חָרֻם אוֹ פִּסֵחַ a man blind or lame or mutilated in the face (in nose, lip, ear, etc.), or too long in a limb Leviticus 21:18 (H), see Di (Kn).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

22:19; 22:19; 22:19

Leviticus

21:18; 27:28; 27:28; 27:28; 27:29; 27:29

Numbers

21:2; 21:2; 21:3; 21:3

Deuteronomy

2:34; 2:34; 2:34; 3:6; 3:6; 3:6; 3:6; 3:7; 7:2; 7:4; 7:5; 7:6; 13:16; 13:16; 20:17

Joshua

2:10; 6:17; 6:17; 6:18; 6:21; 6:21; 8:26; 8:26; 10:1; 10:1; 10:28; 10:28; 10:35; 10:37; 10:37; 10:39; 10:40; 11:11; 11:12; 11:12; 11:20; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21

Judges

21:11

1 Samuel

15:3; 15:3; 15:3; 15:3; 15:8; 15:9; 15:9; 15:11; 15:15; 15:18; 15:18; 15:18; 15:20; 15:20; 15:20; 15:22; 15:23; 15:33

1 Kings

9:21

2 Kings

19:11

1 Chronicles

4:41

2 Chronicles

20:23; 20:23; 32:14; 32:14

Ezra

10:8; 10:8

Isaiah

11:15; 34:2; 37:11

Jeremiah

25:9; 50:21; 50:26; 50:26; 51:3; 51:3

Daniel

11:44; 11:44

Micah

4:13; 4:13

H2763

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Strong's Number H2763 matches the Hebrew חָרַם (ḥāram),
which occurs 52 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:20 - (LXX 22:19) He that sacrifices to any gods but to the Lord alone, shall be destroyed by death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:18 - No man who has a blemish on him shall draw nigh; a man lame, blind, with his nose disfigured, or his ears cut,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - And every dedicated thing which a man shall dedicate to the Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of the field of his possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every devoted thing shall be most holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29 - And whatever shall be dedicated of men, shall not be ransomed, but shall be surely put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Chananite into his power; and Israel devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place [fn]Anathema.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - We utterly destroyed them as we dealt with Seon the king of Esebon, so we utterly destroyed every city in order, and the women and the children,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt not make a covenant with them, neither shall ye pity them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - (LXX 13:16) thou shalt utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; ye shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - but ye shall surely curse them, the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite; as the Lord thy God commanded thee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of the land of Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest ye set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and ye make the camp of the children of Israel an accursed thing, and destroy us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the [fn]edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - And when Adoni-bezec king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Gai, and had destroyed it, as he did to Jericho and its king, even so they did to Gai and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gabaon had gone over to Joshua and Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 - And they took Makeda on that day, and slew [fn]the inhabitants with the [fn]edge of the sword, and they utterly destroyed every living thing that was in it; and there was none left in it that was preserved and had escaped; and they did to the king of Makeda, as they did to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:35 - And the Lord delivered it into the hand of Israel; and he took it on that day, and slew the inhabitants with the edge of the sword, and slew every thing breathing in it, as they did to Lachis.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:37 - And he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the living creatures that were in it; there was no one preserved: they destroyed it and all things in it, as they did to Odollam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - and they took it, and its king, and its villages: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and they destroyed it, and every thing breathing in it; and they did not leave in it any one that was preserved: as they did to Chebron and her king, so they did to Dabir and her king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 - And Joshua smote all the land of the hill country, and [fn]Nageb and the plain country, and Asedoth, and her kings, they did not leave of them one that was saved: and they utterly destroyed every thing that had the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel commanded,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:11 - And they slew with the sword all that breathed in it, and utterly destroyed them all, and there was no living thing left in it; and they burnt Asor with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - And Joshua took all the cities of the kingdoms, and their kings, and slew them with the edge of the sword; and utterly slew them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was of the Lord to [fn]harden their hearts to go forth to war against Israel, that they might be utterly destroyed, that mercy should not be granted to them, but that they should be utterly destroyed, as the Lord said to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - And Joshua came at that time, and utterly destroyed the Enakim out of the hill country, from Chebron and from Dabir, and from Anaboth, and from all the [fn]race of Israel, and from all the mountain of Juda with their cities; and Joshua utterly destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - And Judas went with Symeon his brother, and smote the Chananite that inhabited Sepheth, and they utterly destroyed them; and they called the name of the city Anathema.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - And now go, and thou shalt smite Amalec and [fn]Hierim and all that belongs to him, and thou shalt not save anything of him alive, but thou shalt utterly destroy him: and thou shalt devote him and all his to destruction, and thou shalt spare nothing belonging to him; and thou shalt slay both man and woman, and infant and suckling, and calf and sheep, and camel and ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive, and he slew all the people and [fn]Hierim with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - And Saul and all the people saved Agag alive, and the [fn]best of the flocks, and of the herds, and of the fruits, of the vineyards, and of all the good things; and they would not destroy them: but every worthless and refuse [fn]thing they destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - And Saul said, I have brought them out of Amalec, that which the people preserved, even the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, that it might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, and the rest have I utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said to thee, Go, and utterly destroy: thou shalt slay the sinners against me, even the Amalekites; and thou shalt war against them until thou have consumed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - And Saul said to Samuel, Because I listened to the voice of the people: yet I went the way by which the Lord sent me, and I brought Agag the king of Amalec, and I destroyed Amalec.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11 - Behold, thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to [fn]waste them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - And these who are written by name came in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and they smote the people's houses, and the Minæans whom they found there, and utterly destroyed them until this day: and they dwelt in their place, because there was pasture there for their cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - Then the children of Ammon and Moab rose up against the dwellers in mount Seir, to destroy and consume them; and when they had made an end of destroying the inhabitants of Seir, they rose up against one another so that they were utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:14 - Who is there among all the gods of those nations whom my fathers utterly destroyed, worthy of trust? Could they deliver their people out of my hand, that your God should deliver you out of my hand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - Every one who shall not arrive within three days, as is the counsel of the rulers and the elders, all his substance shall be forfeited, and he shall be separated from the congregation of the captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall [fn]smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shalt thou be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:21 - (LXX 27:21) on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26 - (LXX 27:26) For her times are come: open ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - (LXX 28:3) Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - But rumours and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 - Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thine horns iron, and I will make thine hoofs brass: and thou shalt utterly destroy many nations, and shalt consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.
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