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Jeremiah 51:40
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Jeremiah 51:40
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
40I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates.
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Jeremiah 51:40
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
The killing of persons or animals, especially in great number; as a verb, to kill or slay.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
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Open the full verse study18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
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Open the full verse study6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
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Open the full verse study20But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
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Open the full verse study22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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