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Lexicon :: Strong's H3205 - yālaḏ

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יָלַד
Transliteration
yālaḏ
Pronunciation
yaw-lad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 867

Strong’s Definitions

יָלַד yâlad, yaw-lad'; a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:—bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 498x

The KJV translates Strong's H3205 in the following manner: beget (201x), bare (110x), born (79x), bring forth (25x), bear (23x), travail (16x), midwife (10x), child (8x), delivered (5x), borne (3x), birth (2x), labour (2x), brought up (2x), miscellaneous (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 498x
The KJV translates Strong's H3205 in the following manner: beget (201x), bare (110x), born (79x), bring forth (25x), bear (23x), travail (16x), midwife (10x), child (8x), delivered (5x), borne (3x), birth (2x), labour (2x), brought up (2x), miscellaneous (12x).

  1. to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail

    1. (Qal)

      1. to bear, bring forth

        1. of child birth

        2. of distress (simile)

        3. of wicked (behaviour)

      2. to beget

    2. (Niphal) to be born

    3. (Piel)

      1. to cause or help to bring forth

      2. to assist or tend as a midwife

      3. midwife (participle)

    4. (Pual) to be born

    5. (Hiphil)

      1. to beget (a child)

      2. to bear (fig. - of wicked bringing forth iniquity)

    6. (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive)

    7. (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָלַד yâlad, yaw-lad'; a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:—bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
STRONGS H3205: Abbreviations
יָלַד 497 verb bear, bring forth, beget (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יְלִיד, יְלֵיד, bdb040801; Arabic bdb040802 bear, bring forth, so Ethiopic bdb040803 Assyrian alâdu, COTGloss) —
Qal Perfect יָלַד Genesis 4:18 (3 times in verse) + 16 times; יָלָ֑ד Jeremiah 17:11; וְיָלַד consecutive Psalm 7:15; suffix יְלָֽדְךָ Deuteronomy 32:18; 2nd person masculine singular suffix ילדתני Jeremiah 2:27 Kt; Qr יְלִדְתָּנוּ (Köi. 410 Ges§ 70, 2. R. 4); 1st person singular suffix יְלִדְתִּ֫יךָ Psalm 2:7; יְלִדְתִּ֫יהוּ Numbers 11:12, etc.; Imperfect יֵלָד(יֹום) Proverbs 27:1; 3rd person feminine singular תֵּלֵד Genesis 17:17 + 6 times; וַתֵּ֫לֶד Genesis 4:1 + 61 times; 2nd person feminine singular תֵּלְדִי Genesis 3:16; אֵלֵד Genesis 18:13; וָאֵלֵד 1 Kings 3:17; יֵֽֽֽלְדוּ Isaiah 65:23; 3rd person feminine plural תֵּלַדְנָה Jeremiah 29:6; וַתֵּלַדְנָה Ezekiel 23:4; וַתֵּלַדְןָ Genesis 30:39, etc.; Infinitive absolute יָלֹד Job 15:35; construct לֵדָה Hosea 9:11 + 3 times; לֶ֫דֶת Genesis 4:2 + 10 times; לָלַת 1 Samuel 4:19 (Köi, 402, but probably text error Dr); suffix לִדְתִּי 1 Kings 3:18, etc.; Participle active יֹלֵד Proverbs 17:21; Jeremiah 30:6, etc.; feminine יוֺלֵדָה Hosea 13:13 + 12 times; יֹלֶ֫דֶת Genesis 17:19 + 4 times; יֹלַדְתְּ Genesis 16:11 + 2 times (Köi. 404 f.; perhaps יֹלֶדֶת intended by Kt, compare Sta§ 213 b); suffix Proverbs 23:25; יוֺלַדְתּוֺ Proverbs 17:25; etc.; plural יֹלְדוֺת Jeremiah 16:3; Passive participle יָלוּד 1 Kings 3:26, 27; construct יְלוּד Job 14:1 + 2 times; plural יְלוּדִים 1 Chronicles 14:4; —
1. bear, bring froth:
a. (a mother a child,) so commonly, approximately + 208 times; followed by accusative Genesis 3:16; Genesis 4:1 & constantly; accusative omitted Genesis 6:2 etc. = be delivered of a child, 1 Kings 3:17, 18; 2 Kings 19:3 = Isaiah 37:3 (in proverb with negative, i.e. human power exhausted); of animals Genesis 30:39; Genesis 31:8 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 14:5; Jeremiah 17:11 (bird laying eggs, or hatching out young), Ezekiel 31:6; Job 39:1, 2; but also of whole process of labour (compare חול) וַתְּקַשׁ בְּלִדְתָּהּ Genesis 35:16 compare Genesis 35:17, Genesis 38:27, 28, compare 1 Samuel 14:19; Jeremiah 31:18; Micah 5:2 (of a man, as preposterous, Jeremiah 30:6, compare Moses as mother of Israel Numbers 11:12).
b. hence in simile of distress Micah 4:9, 10; Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 42:14; Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 13:21; Jeremiah 22:23; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 50:43; Psalm 48:7, compare Hosea 13:13; ילד עלבֿרכים (StaZAW 1886, 143 ff.) Genesis 30:3; Genesis 50:23 (compare Job 3:12).
c. figurative of wicked וְהָרָה עָמָל וְיָלַד שָׁ֑קֶר Psalm 7:15 compare Job 15:35 also Isaiah 33:11; of Israelites, bringing froth wind (of vain efforts for deliverance) Isaiah 26:18; כְּפֹר שָׁמַיִם מִי יְלָדוֺ Job 38:29; of Tyre as mother of her inhabitants Isaiah 23:4 of Jerusalem Isaiah 51:18; Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 66:7, 8; Ezekiel 16:20; Israel bearing disloyal children Hosea 5:7; Jerusalem and Samaria, as Oholibah and Oholah Ezekiel 23:37; of Babylon Jeremiah 50:12; of a day, as producing events לֹאתֵֿדַע מַה יֵּ֫לֶד יוֺם Proverbs 27:1; perhaps of God (figurative of rock צוּר), as mother of Israel bringing forth with labour Deuteronomy 32:18 yet see 2.
2. less often beget:
a. literal, approximately + 22 times, always with accusative; in Hexateuch a mark of J; Genesis 4:18 (3 times in verse); Genesis 10:8, 13, 15, 24 (twice in verse); Genesis 10:26 = 1 Chronicles 1:10, 11, 13, 18 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 1:20, Genesis 22:23; Genesis 25:3 (Deuteronomy 32:18 & Numbers 11:12 E are dubious; P uses Hiph.), elsewhere Proverbs 17:21; Proverbs 23:23, 24; Daniel 11:6.
b. beget, figurative Psalm 2:7 of י׳'s formally installing king into theocratic rights.
3. Zechariah 13:3 (twice in verse), of both parents (literally); Passive participle + 3 times = child 1 Kings 3:26, 27 where mother is named, 1 Chronicles 14:4 where father named.
† Niph. Perfect נוֺלַד 1 Chronicles 2:3 + 6 times + הנּוֺלַדֿ Genesis 21:3 according to points, but read Participle (see Di); נוּ֯לְּדוּ 1 Chronicles 3:5; 1 Chronicles 20:8 (compare Ol§ 70, 2, R. 5); Imperfect יִוָּלֵד Genesis 17:17 + 4 times; יִוָּ֑לֶד Isaiah 66:8; וַיִּוָּלֵד Genesis 4:18 + 2 times, etc.; Infinitive הִוָּ֑לֶד Genesis 21:5; הִוָּֽלְדוֹ Ecclesiastes 7:1; הִוָּֽֽֽלְדָהּ Hosea 2:5 [Hosea 2:3]; Participle נוֺלָד 1 Kings 13:2 + 3 times (Genesis 21:3 see above); נוֺלָדִים Genesis 48:5; 1 Chronicles 7:21; — be born: of human beings, followed by לְ (born to such and such a man), Genesis 4:18; Genesis 10:1; Genesis 17:17; Genesis 21:3, 5; Genesis 46:20; Genesis 48:5; Numbers 26:60; Deuteronomy 23:9 [Deuteronomy 23:8]; 2 Samuel 3:2 (Qr), 2 Samuel 5:13; 2 Samuel 14:27; 1 Chronicles 2:3, 9; 1 Chronicles 3:1, 4, 5; 1 Chronicles 20:6, 8; 1 Chronicles 22:9; 1 Chronicles 26:6; Job 1:2 compare 1 Kings 13:2; without לְ, Job 3:3; Job 38:21; Psalm 78:6; 1 Chronicles 7:21; Ecclesiastes 7:1 (טוֹבמִשֶּׁמֶן שֵׁם טוֹב הִוָּֽלְדֽוֹ׃ מִיּוֹם וְיוֹם); metaphor of Israel (under figure of unfaithful wife) Hosea 2:5 [Hosea 2:3]; of nation, גּוֺי, Isaiah 66:8; people, עַם, Psalm 22:32; of animals Leviticus 22:27; Deuteronomy 15:19; Participle כָּלנָֿשִׁים וְהַנּוֺלָד מֵהֶם Ezra 10:3; with predicate or appositive on which emphasis rests, רָ֑שׁ נ׳ Ecclesiastes 4:14 he was born poor; אֹהֵב הָרֵ֑ע וְאָח לְצָרָה יִוָּלֵד Proverbs 17:17; עַיִר פרא אדם יִוָּלֵד Job 11:12; Job 15:7.
† Pi. Infinitive יַלֶּדְכֶן Exodus 1:16 Participle absolute מְיַלֶּדֶת Genesis 35:17 + 2 times; plural absolute מְיִלְּדוֺת Exodus 1:15 + 5 times in Exodus 1; — cause (or help) to bring forth, namely, assist or tend as midwife Exodus 1:16 followed by accusative; elsewhere only Participle feminine as substantive = midwife; Genesis 35:17 (E), Genesis 38:28 (J), Exodus 1:15, 17, 18, 19 (twice in verse); Exodus 1:20, 21 (E).
† Pu. Perfect יֻלַּד Genesis 4:26 + 13 times; יוּלַּד Judges 18:29; יֻלָּד֨ Genesis 41:50; יוּלָּ֑ד Job 5:7; יֻלְּדוּ Genesis 6:1 + 4 times + 2 Samuel 3:2 Kt (Qr וַיִּוָּֽלְדוּ); יֻלָּ֑דוּ Psalm 90:2, etc.; Participle (? compare Köi. 433; Ges§ 52, 2, R. 6) הַיוּלָּד Judges 13:8 (Böii. p. 244 passive Qal); i.q. [the same as] Niph. be born, followed by לְ of father Genesis 4:26; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 10:21, 25; Genesis 24:15 (all J), Genesis 41:50 (E), Genesis 35:26; Genesis 36:5; Genesis 46:22, 27 (all P), Judges 18:29; 2 Samuel 3:2, 5; 2 Samuel 21:20, 22; 1 Chronicles 1:19; Jeremiah 20:15; followed by לְ before grandmother's name Ruth 4:17 compare לָ֫נוּ Isaiah 9:5; followed by לְ of purpose, destiny, אדם לעמל יוּלָּד֑ Job 5:7; יֻלְּדוּ עַלבִּֿרְכֵי יוֺסֵף Genesis 50:23 (E; ⅏ בִּימֵי יו׳, cit. Di) denoting recognition of children as his; no preposition Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 22:26, compare Judges 13:8 (see above); figurative of foreigners incorporated in spiritual Zion Psalm 87:4; Psalm 87:5; Psalm 87:6; of production of mountains Psalm 90:2.
Hiph. Perfect הוֺלִיד Genesis 11:27 +; הוֺלִד Numbers 26:58; הֹלִיד 1 Chronicles 2:36 +; suffix וְהוֺלִידָהּ consecutive Isaiah 55:10; הוֺלַדְ֫תָּ Genesis 48:6, etc.; Imperfect יוֺלִיד Genesis 17:20; Ecclesiastes 6:3; וַיּ֫וֺלֶד Genesis 5:3 +; 2nd person masculine singular תּוֺלִיד Deuteronomy 4:25 + 4 times; אוֺלִיד Isaiah 66:9; Imperative הוֺלִי֫דוּ Jeremiah 29:6; Infinitive absolute הוֺלֵיד Isaiah 59:4; construct suffix הוֺלִידוֺ Genesis 5:4 + 16 times; Participle מוֺלִיד Isaiah 66:9; מוֺלִדִים Jeremiah 16:3; —
1. beget (a father a child) Genesis 5:3, 4 (twice in verse) + 56 times in Genesis; Leviticus 25:45; Numbers 26:29, 58 (all these P, see below Qal) + Deuteronomy 4:25; Deuteronomy 28:41 (see Di), 1 Chronicles 2:10 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 2:11 (twice in verse) + 84 times Chronicles; Ruth 4:18 + 8 times, Judges 11:1; 2 Kings 20:18 = Isaiah 39:7; Jeremiah 29:6; Ezekiel 18:10, 14; Ezekiel 47:22; Ecclesiastes 5:13; Ecclesiastes 6:3, compare Isaiah 45:10; also Jeremiah 16:3 אֲבוֺתָם הַמּוֺלִדִים אוֺתָם, compare frequently Assyr. abu banuûa, e.g. VR 1:8; figurative of producing dewdrops Job 38:28; of causing the earth to bear grain Isaiah 55:10, causing Zion to bring forth Isaiah 66:9.
2. bear, only figurative Isaiah 59:4 (|| הָרוֺ), of wicked, bringing forth iniquity (this favoured by context others, beget).
† Hoph. Infinitive חֻלֶּ֫דֶת Genesis 40:20; Ezekiel 16:5; הוּלֶּ֫דֶת Ezekiel 16:4 (Co as foregoing); only אֶתֿ יוֺם ה׳ Genesis 40:20; Ezekiel 16:4, 5 day of one's being born = birthday.
† Hithp. Imperfect וַיִּתְיִלְּדוּ Numbers 1:18 denominative from תולדת declared their pedigree (see Di).
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Genesis

3:16; 3:16; 4:1; 4:1; 4:2; 4:18; 4:18; 4:18; 4:18; 4:26; 4:26; 5:3; 5:3; 5:4; 5:4; 6:1; 6:1; 6:2; 10:1; 10:8; 10:13; 10:15; 10:21; 10:24; 10:25; 10:26; 11:27; 16:11; 17:17; 17:17; 17:17; 17:19; 17:20; 18:13; 21:3; 21:3; 21:3; 21:5; 21:5; 22:23; 24:15; 25:3; 30:3; 30:39; 30:39; 31:8; 35:16; 35:17; 35:17; 35:17; 35:26; 36:5; 38:27; 38:28; 38:28; 40:20; 40:20; 41:50; 41:50; 46:20; 46:22; 46:27; 48:5; 48:5; 48:6; 50:23; 50:23

Exodus

1; 1:15; 1:15; 1:16; 1:16; 1:17; 1:18; 1:19; 1:20; 1:21

Leviticus

22:27; 25:45

Numbers

1:18; 11:12; 11:12; 11:12; 26:29; 26:58; 26:58; 26:60

Deuteronomy

4:25; 4:25; 15:19; 23:8; 28:41; 32:18; 32:18; 32:18

Judges

11:1; 13:8; 13:8; 18:29; 18:29

Ruth

4:17; 4:18

1 Samuel

4:19; 14:19

2 Samuel

3:2; 3:2; 3:2; 3:5; 5:13; 14:27; 21:20; 21:22

1 Kings

3:17; 3:17; 3:18; 3:18; 3:26; 3:26; 3:27; 3:27; 13:2; 13:2

2 Kings

19:3; 20:18

1 Chronicles

1:10; 1:11; 1:13; 1:18; 1:19; 1:20; 2:3; 2:3; 2:9; 2:10; 2:11; 2:36; 3:1; 3:4; 3:5; 3:5; 7:21; 7:21; 14:4; 14:4; 20:6; 20:8; 20:8; 22:9; 26:6

Ezra

10:3

Job

1:2; 3:3; 3:12; 5:7; 5:7; 11:12; 14:1; 15:7; 15:35; 15:35; 38:21; 38:28; 38:29; 39:1; 39:2

Psalms

2:7; 2:7; 7:15; 7:15; 48:7; 78:6; 87:4; 87:5; 87:6; 90:2; 90:2

Proverbs

17:17; 17:21; 17:21; 17:25; 23:23; 23:24; 23:25; 27:1; 27:1

Ecclesiastes

4:14; 5:13; 6:3; 6:3; 7:1; 7:1

Isaiah

9:5; 13:8; 21:3; 23:4; 26:18; 33:11; 37:3; 39:7; 42:14; 45:10; 51:18; 54:1; 55:10; 55:10; 59:4; 59:4; 65:23; 66:7; 66:8; 66:8; 66:8; 66:9; 66:9; 66:9

Jeremiah

2:27; 6:24; 13:21; 14:5; 16:3; 16:3; 16:3; 17:11; 17:11; 20:14; 20:15; 22:23; 22:26; 29:6; 29:6; 29:6; 30:6; 30:6; 30:6; 31:18; 49:24; 50:12; 50:43

Ezekiel

16:4; 16:4; 16:5; 16:5; 16:20; 18:10; 18:14; 23:4; 23:37; 31:6; 47:22

Daniel

11:6

Hosea

2:3; 2:3; 5:7; 9:11; 13:13; 13:13

Micah

4:9; 4:10; 5:2

Zechariah

13:3

H3205

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Strong's Number H3205 matches the Hebrew יָלַד (yālaḏ),
which occurs 25 times in 18 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their trouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 - We have heard the report of it;
Our hands grow feeble.
Anguish has taken hold of us,
Pain as of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:21 - What will you say when He punishes you?
For you have taught them
To be chieftains, to be head over you.
Will not pangs seize you,
Like a woman in labor?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:5 - Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field,
But left because there was no grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 - “She languishes who has borne seven;
She has breathed her last;
Her sun has gone down
While it was yet day;
She has been ashamed and confounded.
And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword
Before their enemies,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10 - Woe is me, my mother,
That you have borne me,
A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have neither lent for interest,
Nor have men lent to me for interest.
Every one of them curses me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:3 - For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:11 - “As a partridge that broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It will leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be a fool.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:14 - Cursed be the day in which I was born!
Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:15 - Let the man be cursed
Who brought news to my father, saying,
“A male child has been born to you!”
Making him very glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:23 - O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like the pain of a woman in labor?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:26 - “So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:6 - Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:6 - Ask now, and see,
Whether a man is ever in labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:8 - Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;
She who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness,
A dry land and a desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 - “The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.
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