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Jeremiah 51:12

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Jeremiah 51:12

12Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

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DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 51:12

APPROVED COMBINED MEANING

Set

To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.

Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828

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standard

A flag, banner, or ensign used as a rallying point; also an established rule or measure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)

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walls

Structures enclosing, dividing, or defending a place.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)

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Babylon

The city and kingdom of Babylon; by extension in prophecy, a power or system bearing that name.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)

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watch

To stay awake, observe, guard, or keep vigil; also a guard duty or division of the night.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)

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strong

Having strength, power, firmness, endurance, influence, or the ability to resist and prevail.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)

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watchmen

To stay awake, observe, guard, or keep vigil; also a guard duty or division of the night.

Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)

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prepare

To make all things ready; to put things in suitable order. Ina general sense, to fit, adapt or qualify for a particular purpose, end, use, service or state, by any means whatever.

Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)

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ambushes

Concealed positions or companies lying in wait; as a verb, attacks unexpectedly from concealment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828

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Lord

LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828

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devised

Planned, contrived, imagined, or formed in the mind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)

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done

Performed; executed; finished; a word by which agreement to a proposal is expressed.

Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828

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against

Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893

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From verse 12

  1. Isaiah 13:2
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  2. Jeremiah 51:11
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  3. Jeremiah 51:29
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  4. Nahum 2:1
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  5. Isaiah 8:9–10
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