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Isaiah 19:6

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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
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  1. Isaiah 37:25Rank 1 from verse 6
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    25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

  2. 2 Kings 19:24Rank 2 from verse 6
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    24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

  3. Exodus 2:3Rank 3 from verse 6
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    3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

  4. Exodus 7:18Rank 4 from verse 6
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    18And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

  5. Job 8:11Rank 5 from verse 6
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    11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

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Isaiah 19:6

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

turn

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Sense 1: To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change. Sense 2: One’s time or occasion in an order or succession.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

defence

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Sense 1: Protection from attack or harm; a means of defending. Sense 2: An answer made against an accusation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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emptied

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Past-tense or past-participial form of empty (to make void or destitute, deprive of contents, or pour out).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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dried

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of dry, meaning to become or make free from moisture.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

reeds

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1. Units of length measured by a measuring reed. 2. Tall, cane-like plants growing in or near water.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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19:1THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

19:2And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

19:3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

19:4And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

19:5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

19:6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

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19:7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

19:8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

19:9Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

19:10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

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