Jeremiah 48:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֻ֖סוּ מַלְּט֣וּ נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וְתִֽהְיֶ֔ינָה כַּעֲרוֹעֵ֖ר בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

Transliteration

nusû malleṭû nap̄šᵉḵem and wᵉṯihyeynāh like kaʿărôʿēr in the middbār [wilderness].

Grammar Details

*nusû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - 'flee'
*malleṭû*: Piel imperative masculine plural - 'save/rescue'
*nap̄šᵉḵem*: noun, feminine singular construct + 2nd masculine plural suffix - 'your lives/souls'
*wᵉṯihyeynāh*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 2nd/3rd feminine plural - 'and you/they shall be'
*kaʿărôʿēr*: preposition + proper noun - 'like Aroer/like a juniper'
*ba-middbār*: preposition + article + noun, masculine singular - 'in the wilderness'

Word Meanings

*nusû*: flee/escape
*malleṭû*: save/deliver/rescue
*nap̄šᵉḵem*: your lives/your souls/yourselves
*ʿărôʿēr*: Aroer (city name)/juniper tree/stripped one
*middbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land

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Referenced Verses

Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jer 51:6 : 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Matt 24:16-18 : 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 {G2532} Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Luke 3:7 : 7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 17:31-33 : 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Gen 19:17 : 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Job 30:3-7 : 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men,(they cried after them as after a thief;) 6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Ps 11:1 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Prov 6:4-5 : 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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