Jeremiah 46:20
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
יָפֶה
yâpheh
beautiful (literally or figuratively)
עֶגְלָה
ʻeglâh
a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)
שֶׁבֶר
sheber
a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
צָפוֹן
tsâphôwn
properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown)
Key Terms in This Verse
עֶגְלָה ʻeglâh
a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)
Study H5697 →שֶׁבֶר sheber
a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
Study H7667 →צָפוֹן tsâphôwn
properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown)
Study H6828 →Cross References
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the m...
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for th...
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there...
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
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