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The seaהַיָּםhas come upעָלָהover Babylon;עַל בָּבֶלwith the multitudeבַּהֲמוֹןof its wavesגַּלָּיוshe is covered.נִכְסָתָה
Jeremiah 51:42
Study it in the app“The sea has come up over Babylon; with the multitude of its waves she is covered.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 51:42, word by word
- The seaיָּםyam
sea
The sea, or a large lake.
Where else “yam” appears- has come upעָלָהala
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “ala” appears- over Babylonבָּבֶלbavel
Babel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appears- with the multitudeהֲמוֹןhamon
multitude
Many people gathered, or a great number of something, like an army.
Where else “hamon” appears- of its wavesגַּלָּיgalay
wave
The rising swell of the sea.
Where else “galay” appears- she is coveredנִכְסָתָהnichsata
cover
To put something over a thing so that it can no longer be seen.
Where else “nichsata” appears
Places in this verse
Babylon
Today: Babylon ruins, near Hillah, Iraq
A great city on the Euphrates River, in present-day Iraq, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Baghdad.
In its land the languages were confused at Babel (Gen 11:9). Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive there (2 Kgs 25:1-11). Daniel lived there (Dan 1:1-6).
The context
41How Sheshach is captured, and the praise of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
42 · This verse (above)
43Her cities have become a horror, a dry land and a steppe, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.