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Who isמִיthisזֶהthat risesיַעֲלֶהlike the Nile,כַּיְאֹרlike the riversכַּנְּהָרוֹתwhose watersמֵימָיוsurge?יִתְגָּעֲשׁוּ
Jeremiah 46:7
Study it in the app“Who is this that rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 46:7, word by word
- that risesיַעֲלֶהyaale
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “yaale” appears- like the Nileיְאֹרyeor
Nile
See it on the mapWhere else “yeor” appears- like the riversנְּהָרוֹתneharot
river
River, stream; above all the Euphrates ("the River") or the Nile.
Where else “neharot” appears- whose watersמֵימָיmemay
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “memay” appears- surgeיִתְגָּעֲשׁוּyitgaashu
shake, be shaken
To shake violently, to be stirred up. Said of the earth, of waters or of someone who staggers.
Where else “yitgaashu” appears
Places in this verse
Nile
Today: Nile River, Uganda to Egypt and the Mediterranean
Egypt's great river; it flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.
Pharaoh dreamed beside the Nile (Gen 41:1). God turned its waters to blood (Exod 7:20), and baby Moses was placed on its bank (Exod 2:3-5).
The context
6Let not the swift flee, nor the mighty man escape! Northward, by the bank of the river Euphrates, they have stumbled and fallen.
7 · This verse (above)
8Egypt rises like the Nile, and like the rivers the waters surge; and it said, “I will rise, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and those who dwell in it.”