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A heiferעֶגְלָהvery beautifulיְפֵה פִיָּהis Egypt;מִצְרָיִםa gadflyקֶרֶץfrom the northמִצָּפוֹןis coming,בָּאcoming.בָא
Jeremiah 46:20
Study it in the app“A heifer very beautiful is Egypt; a gadfly from the north is coming, coming.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 46:20, word by word
- A heiferעֶגְלָהegla
heifer
A young cow.
Where else “egla” appears- very beautifulיְפֵהyefe
very beautiful
Very beautiful, lovely.
Where else “yefe” appears- is Egyptמִצְרָיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- a gadflyקֶרֶץkerets
gadfly
Gadfly, a stinging insect (others: destruction).
Where else “kerets” appears- from the northצָּפוֹןtsafon
north
North.
Where else “tsafon” appears- is comingבָּאba
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “ba” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
19Make for yourself baggage for exile, you who dwell, daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will become a horror, and will be set on fire, without inhabitant.
20 · This verse (above)
21Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like calves from the stall; for they too have turned back, they have fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.