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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 Box Exo 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:20 - "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:18 - For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29 - No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - Yisra'el vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - The LORD listened to the voice of Yisra'el, and delivered up the Kana`anim; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sichon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and when the LORD your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amori, the Kana`ani, and the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi; as the LORD your God has commanded you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Sea of Suf before you, when you came out of Mitzrayim; and what you did to the two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden, to Sichon and to `Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Yisra'el accursed, and trouble it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Yehoshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of `Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Now it happened, when Adoni-Tzedek king of Yerushalayim heard how Yehoshua had taken `Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Yericho and her king, so he had done to `Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Giv`on had made shalom with Yisra'el, and were among them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 - Yehoshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:35 - and they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lakhish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:37 - and they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to `Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hevron, so he did to Devir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Livna, and to the king of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 - So Yehoshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:11 - They struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burnt Hatzor with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Yehoshua take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moshe the servant of the LORD commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Yisra'el in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - Yehoshua came at that time, and cut off the `Anakim from the hill-country, from Hevron, from Devir, from `Anav, and from all the hill-country of Yehudah, and from all the hill-country of Yisra'el: Yehoshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - Yehudah went with Shim`on his brother, and they struck the Kana`anim who inhabited Tzefat, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go and strike `Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - He took Agag the king of the `Amaleki alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Sha'ul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Sha'ul said, They have brought them from the `Amaleki: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - and the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the `Amaleki, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - Sha'ul said to Shemu'el, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of `Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the `Amaleki.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:21 - their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Yisra'el were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Shlomo raise a levy of bondservants to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11 - Behold, you have heard what the kings of Ashshur have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - These written by name came in the days of Hizkiyahu king of Yehudah, and struck their tents, and the Me`unim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the children of `Ammon and Mo'av stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Se`ir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se`ir, everyone helped to destroy another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:14 - Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the Zakenim, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Mitzrian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - For the LORD has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - Behold, you have heard what the kings of Ashshur have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and I will send to Nevukhadretztzar the king of Bavel, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:21 - Go up against the land of Meratayim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26 - Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her host.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 - Arise and thresh, daughter of Tziyon; For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hoofs brass; And you will beat in pieces many peoples: And I will devote their gain to the LORD, And their substance to the Lord of the whole eretz.
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