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Lexicon :: Strong's H376 - 'îš

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אִישׁ
Transliteration
'îš
Pronunciation
eesh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (H582) [or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 83a

Strong’s Definitions

אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x

The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x
The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).

  1. man

    1. man, male (in contrast to woman, female)

    2. husband

    3. human being, person (in contrast to God)

    4. servant

    5. mankind

    6. champion

    7. great man

  2. whosoever

  3. each (adjective)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.
STRONGS H376: Abbreviations
אִישׁ 2166 noun masculine man (= vir) (MI, SI, Phoenician אש, perhaps also Sabean אסם compare Prätl.c., but DHMZMG 1883, 330) — א׳ absolute Genesis 2:23 +; construct Genesis 25:27 +; suffix אִישִׁי Genesis 29:32 +, etc.; plural אִישִׁים Psalm 141:4 + 2 times (Phoenician אשם); usually אֲנָשִׁים Genesis 12:20 +, from √ אנשׁ which see; construct אַנְשֵׁי Judges 6:27 +; suffix אֲנָשַׁי 1 Samuel 23:12 etc.; — man, opposed to woman Genesis 2:23, 24; Leviticus 20:27; Numbers 5:6; Deuteronomy 17:2f; Joshua 6:21; Joshua 8:25; Jeremiah 40:7, emphasis on sexual distinction & relation Genesis 19:8; Genesis 24:16; Genesis 38:25; Exodus 22:15; Leviticus 15:16 (שִׁכְבַת זָרַ֑ע) Leviticus 15:18 (בֶּןא׳ אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב אִישׁ אֹתָהּ שׁ׳־ז׳ וְאִשָּׁה) Leviticus 20:10f; Numbers 5:13f; Deuteronomy 22:22f; Isaiah 4:1 +; thence = husband, especially with suffix Genesis 3:6, 16; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 29:32, 34; Leviticus 21:7; Numbers 30:7f; Deuteronomy 28:56; Judges 13:8f; Ruth 1:3f; 1 Samuel 25:19; Jeremiah 29:6; Ezekiel 16:45 +; figurative of י׳ as husband of Israel אִישִׁי Hosea 2:18 (opposed to בַּעְלִּי); man as procreator, father Ecclesiastes 6:3; of male child Genesis 4:1 compare זֶרַע אֲנָשִׁים 1 Samuel 1:11; man, opposed to beast Exodus 11:7; Leviticus 20:15 (compare אָדָם); compare figurative Psalm 22:7 but also of male of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse) (אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֺ); man, opposed to God Genesis 32:29; Numbers 23:19 לֹא אִישׁ אֵל וִיכַזֵּב (|| וּבֶן־אָדָם וְיִתְנֶחָ֑ם); Job 9:32; Job 32:13; Hosea 11:9 compare Isaiah 31:8; Job 12:10 (רוּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר אִישׁ); hence in phrases to denote ordinary, customary, common שֵׁבֶט אֲנָשִׁים 2 Samuel 7:14 (|| נִגְעֵי בְּנֵי אָדָם); לֶחֶם אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17, 22 [**אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 24:22 is textual error; We (apparently Sm) אֲנֻשִׁים; ToyHpt אוֺנִים (Hos 9:4).] (compare Isaiah 8:1); אַמַּת־אִישׁ Deuteronomy 3:11; but also contracted אָדָם Psalm 49:3; Psalm 62:10; man, as valiant 1 Samuel 4:9 (twice in verse) (וִהְיוּ לַאֲנָשִׁים) so, 1 Kings 2:2 compare 1 Samuel 26:15; so אִישׁ חַיִל [H381 1 Samuel 31:12; 2 Samuel 24:9; 1 Kings 1:42] +; also אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה Numbers 31:49; Deuteronomy 2:14, 16; Joshua 5:4, 6 +; even of י׳ Exodus 15:3 יהוה אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה; often prefixed to other nouns in apposition אָדוֺן א׳ Genesis 42:30, 33, שַׂר וְשֹׁפֵט א׳ Exodus 2:14, כֹּהֵן א׳ Leviticus 21:9, סָרִיס א׳ Jeremiah 38:7; particular before adjective, of a people אִישׁ מִצְרִי Genesis 39:1; Exodus 2:11, 19 compare Genesis 37:28; Genesis 38:1, 2; Genesis 39:14; 1 Samuel 17:12; 1 Samuel 30:11, 13 +; a man as resident in, or belonging to a place or people Numbers 25:6; Judges 10:1 + (so Phoenician); usually plural אַנְשֵׁי יִשְׂרָאֵל 1 Samuel 7:11; 1 Samuel 31:7 (twice in verse) compare Joshua 7:4, 5 +; also singular collective Deuteronomy 27:14; Joshua 9:6, 7; Judges 20:11; 1 Samuel 11:8 (see Dr) +; [H382 2 Samuel 10:6, 8] (טוֺב א׳); (so MI10; MI13); men = retainers, followers, soldiers 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 23:3; f 1 Samuel 24:3; 1 Samuel 25:13 — Deuteronomy 33:8 singular collective see Di; אִישׁ אֱלֹהִים man of God = prophet Deuteronomy 33:1; Joshua 14:6; 1 Samuel 9:6f; 1 Kings 12:13f + (see אלהים); in phrase followed by abstract אִישׁ חַיִל, מִלְחָמָה א׳ see above; שֵׂיבָה א׳ Deuteronomy 32:25, הַדָּמִים א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7 compare see 8, הַבְּלִיַּעַל א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7, מָוֶת א׳ 1 Kings 2:26, חָמָס א׳ Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 3:31 +; followed by word of occupation, etc. שָׂדֶה א׳ Genesis 25:27, הָאֲדָמָה א׳ Genesis 9:20 (compare Zechariah 13:5), א׳ הַבֵּנַיִם champion 1 Samuel 17:4 (compare Dr) 1 Samuel 17:23, בְּשׂרָה א׳ 2 Samuel 18:20, אִישׁ עֲצָתוֺ his counsellor Isaiah 40:13, compare אִישׁ חֶרְמִי 1 Kings 20:42, רֵעִים א׳ Proverbs 18:24; often distributive = each, every Genesis 9:5; Genesis 10:5; Genesis 40:5 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:3 +; including women Job 42:11; 1 Chronicles 16:3 וַיְחַלֵּק לְכָל־אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאִישׁ וְעַד אִשָּׁה לְאִישׁ כִּכַּר־לֶחֶם; of inanimate things 1 Kings 7:30, 36; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Exodus 36:4; Numbers 4:19, 49; Ezekiel 14:4, 7 +; any one Exodus 34:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 34:24 +; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Leviticus 15:2; Leviticus 22:4, 18 +; of gods 2 Kings 18:33 = Isaiah 36:18; one...another וְהִרְגוּ אִישׁ־ אֶת־אָחִיו וְאִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ וְאִישׁ אֶת־קְרֹבוֺ Exodus 32:27, ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ אָחִיו Deuteronomy 1:16; Micah 7:2 (see אָח), רֵעֵהוּ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ Genesis 11:3, 7 + (see רֵעַ) of inanimate things Genesis 15:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:23; 2:23; 2:24; 3:6; 3:16; 4:1; 7:2; 9:5; 9:20; 10:5; 11:3; 11:7; 12:20; 15:10; 16:3; 19:8; 24:16; 25:27; 25:27; 29:32; 29:32; 29:34; 32:29; 37:28; 38:1; 38:2; 38:25; 39:1; 39:14; 40:5; 42:30; 42:33

Exodus

2:11; 2:14; 2:19; 11:7; 12:3; 15:3; 22:15; 32:27; 34:3; 34:24; 36:4

Leviticus

15:2; 15:16; 15:18; 20:10; 20:15; 20:27; 21:7; 21:9; 22:4; 22:18

Numbers

4:19; 4:49; 5:6; 5:13; 23:19; 25:6; 30:7; 31:49

Deuteronomy

1:16; 2:14; 2:16; 3:11; 17:2; 22:22; 27:14; 28:56; 32:25; 33:1; 33:8

Joshua

5:4; 5:6; 6:21; 7:4; 7:5; 8:25; 9:6; 9:7; 14:6

Judges

6:27; 10:1; 13:8; 20:11

Ruth

1:3

1 Samuel

1:11; 4:9; 7:11; 9:6; 11:8; 17:4; 17:12; 17:23; 18:27; 23:3; 23:12; 24:3; 25:13; 25:19; 26:15; 30:11; 30:13; 31:7

2 Samuel

7:14; 16:7; 16:7; 18:20

1 Kings

2:2; 2:26; 7:30; 7:36; 12:13; 20:42

2 Kings

18:33

1 Chronicles

16:3

Job

9:32; 12:10; 32:13; 42:11

Psalms

22:7; 49:3; 62:10; 140:12; 141:4

Proverbs

3:31; 18:24

Ecclesiastes

6:3

Isaiah

4:1; 8:1; 31:8; 36:18; 40:13

Jeremiah

29:6; 38:7; 40:7

Ezekiel

14:4; 14:7; 16:45; 24:17; 24:17; 24:22; 24:22

Hosea

2:18; 9:4; 11:9

Micah

7:2

Zechariah

13:5

H376

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H376 matches the Hebrew אִישׁ ('îš),
which occurs 161 times in 140 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Jer 1:15–Jer 23:30)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - Listen! I am calling the armies of the kingdoms of the north to come to Jerusalem. I, the LORD, have spoken!
“They will set their thrones
at the gates of the city.
They will attack its walls
and all the other towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD
who brought us safely out of Egypt
and led us through the barren wilderness—
a land of deserts and pits,
a land of drought and death,
where no one lives or even travels?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If a man divorces a woman
and she goes and marries someone else,
he will not take her back again,
for that would surely corrupt the land.
But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
so why are you trying to come back to me?”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - This is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Plow up the hard ground of your hearts!
Do not waste your good seed among thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - O people of Judah and Jerusalem,
surrender your pride and power.
Change your hearts before the LORD,[fn]
or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29 - At the noise of charioteers and archers,
the people flee in terror.
They hide in the bushes
and run for the mountains.
All the towns have been abandoned—
not a person remains!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:1 - “Run up and down every street in Jerusalem,” says the LORD.
“Look high and low; search throughout the city!
If you can find even one just and honest person,
I will not destroy the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:8 - They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:26 - “Among my people are wicked men
who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind.
They continually set traps
to catch people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:3 - Enemies will surround you, like shepherds camped around the city.
Each chooses a place for his troops to devour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - So now I am filled with the LORD’s fury.
Yes, I am tired of holding it in!
“I will pour out my fury on children playing in the streets
and on gatherings of young men,
on husbands and wives
and on those who are old and gray.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:23 - They are armed with bows and spears.
They are cruel and show no mercy.
They sound like a roaring sea
as they ride forward on horses.
They are coming in battle formation,
planning to destroy you, beautiful Jerusalem.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:5 - But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:6 - I listen to their conversations
and don’t hear a word of truth.
Is anyone sorry for doing wrong?
Does anyone say, “What a terrible thing I have done”?
No! All are running down the path of sin
as swiftly as a horse galloping into battle!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - “Beware of your neighbor!
Don’t even trust your brother!
For brother takes advantage of brother,
and friend slanders friend.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 - They all fool and defraud each other;
no one tells the truth.
With practiced tongues they tell lies;
they wear themselves out with all their sinning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - I will weep for the mountains
and wail for the wilderness pastures.
For they are desolate and empty of life;
the lowing of cattle is heard no more;
the birds and wild animals have all fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:23 - I know, LORD, that our lives are not our own.
We are not able to plan our own course.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:2 - “Remind the people of Judah and Jerusalem about the terms of my covenant with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:3 - Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is anyone who does not obey the terms of my covenant!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:8 - but your ancestors did not listen or even pay attention. Instead, they stubbornly followed their own evil desires. And because they refused to obey, I brought upon them all the curses described in this covenant.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:9 - Again the LORD spoke to me and said, “I have discovered a conspiracy against me among the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:21 - This is what the LORD says about the men of Anathoth who wanted me dead. They had said, “We will kill you if you do not stop prophesying in the LORD’s name.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:23 - Not one of these plotters from Anathoth will survive, for I will bring disaster upon them when their time of punishment comes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11 - They have made it an empty wasteland;
I hear its mournful cry.
The whole land is desolate,
and no one even cares.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:15 - But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - As a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I created Judah and Israel to cling to me, says the LORD. They were to be my people, my pride, my glory—an honor to my name. But they would not listen to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - I will smash them against each other, even parents against children, says the LORD. I will not let my pity or mercy or compassion keep me from destroying them.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 - Are you also confused?
Is our champion helpless to save us?
You are right here among us, LORD.
We are known as your people.
Please don’t abandon us now!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10 - Then I said,
“What sorrow is mine, my mother.
Oh, that I had died at birth!
I am hated everywhere I go.
I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose
nor a borrower who refuses to pay—
yet they all curse me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - And you are even worse than your ancestors! You stubbornly follow your own evil desires and refuse to listen to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:10 - But I, the LORD, search all hearts
and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
according to what their actions deserve.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:25 - then kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates forever. There will always be a descendant of David sitting on the throne here in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will always ride in and out among the people of Judah in chariots and on horses, and this city will remain forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - “Therefore, Jeremiah, go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem. Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am planning disaster for you instead of good. So turn from your evil ways, each of you, and do what is right.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - But the people replied, “Don’t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - So let their children starve!
Let them die by the sword!
Let their wives become childless widows.
Let their old men die in a plague,
and let their young men be killed in battle!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:9 - I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:10 - “As these men watch you, Jeremiah, smash the jar you brought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:15 - I curse the messenger who told my father,
“Good news—you have a son!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - Let him be destroyed like the cities of old
that the LORD overthrew without mercy.
Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:7 - I will call for wreckers,
who will bring out their tools to dismantle you.
They will tear out all your fine cedar beams
and throw them on the fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8 - “People from many nations will pass by the ruins of this city and say to one another, ‘Why did the LORD destroy such a great city?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 - “Why is this man Jehoiachin like a discarded, broken jar?
Why are he and his children to be exiled to a foreign land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:30 - This is what the LORD says:
‘Let the record show that this man Jehoiachin was childless.
He is a failure,
for none of his children will succeed him on the throne of David
to rule over Judah.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 - My heart is broken because of the false prophets,
and my bones tremble.
I stagger like a drunkard,
like someone overcome by wine,
because of the holy words
the LORD has spoken against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14 - But now I see that the prophets of Jerusalem are even worse!
They commit adultery and love dishonesty.
They encourage those who are doing evil
so that no one turns away from their sins.
These prophets are as wicked
as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah once were.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:24 - Can anyone hide from me in a secret place?
Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - By telling these false dreams, they are trying to get my people to forget me, just as their ancestors did by worshiping the idols of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:30 - “Therefore,” says the LORD, “I am against these prophets who steal messages from each other and claim they are from me.

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