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Jeremiah 46:11

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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
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  1. Jeremiah 8:22Rank 1 from verse 11
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    22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

  2. Micah 1:9Rank 2 from verse 11
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    9For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

  3. Isaiah 47:1Rank 3 from verse 11
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    1COME down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

  4. Jeremiah 14:17Rank 4 from verse 11
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    17¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

  5. Luke 8:43–44Rank 5 from verse 11
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    43¶ And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

    44Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

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Jeremiah 46:11

COMBINED MEANING

take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

balm

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Anything which heals, or which soothes or mitigates pain.

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

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virgin

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Sense 1: A person who has not had sexual intercourse. Sense 2: Figuratively, a chaste person or a city or people portrayed as a maiden.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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vain

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Empty, fruitless, ineffective, unprofitable, worthless, false, unsubstantial, or conceited.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

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

COMBINED MEANING

use

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Sense 1: Employment, purpose, or customary practice. Sense 2: As a verb, to employ or be accustomed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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cured

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Healed or restored to health or soundness; relieved of disease, infirmity, or bodily affliction.

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

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10For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

11Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

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12The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

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