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I will bring them downאוֹרִידֵםlike lambsכְּכָרִיםto the slaughter,לִטְבוֹחַlike ramsכְּאֵילִיםwith male goats.עִם עַתּוּדִים
Jeremiah 51:40
Study it in the app“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 51:40, word by word
- I will bring them downאוֹרִידֵoride
bring down
To bring something or someone to a lower place.
Where else “oride” appears- like lambsכָרִיםcharim
lamb
A fattened lamb.
Where else “charim” appears- to the slaughterטְבוֹחַtevoach
butcher
To slaughter people without pity, like cattle.
Where else “tevoach” appears- like ramsאֵילִיםelim
ram
A full-grown male sheep, used as an offering.
Where else “elim” appears- with male goatsעַתּוּדִיםatudim
male goat
The male of the goat, offered in sacrifice.
Where else “atudim” appears
The context
39In their heat I will set out their feasts and make them drunk, so that they may exult, and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares YHWH.
40 · This verse (above)
41How Sheshach is captured, and the praise of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!