Jeremiah 48:6

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

נסו נֻסוּ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

נוס

nûwç

Definition

to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver); [idiom] abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, [idiom] hide, lift up a standard.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H5127

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

נוּס

verb • Root נוס • Strongs / High • Page 755

to flee to

נוּס

verb • Root נוס • Strongs / High • Page 955

To flee, to fly, to move on quickly, hence to ride along; to escape; to disappear. Metaphorically, to vanish, to haste away.

נוּס

verb • Root נוס • Strongs / High • Page 974

intransitive verb to give way, to retreat, to draw back, hence to fall away from following God.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

נוּס

verb • Root נוס • Page 433

To flee before any person or thing; construed with מִן (Is. 24:18), לִפְנֵי (Deut. 28:25), or מִפְּנֵי (2 Sam. 23:11). Spoken of inanimate objects like waves (Ps. 104:7) or shadows (Cant. 2:17). Pil. נִוֹסֵס: to chase, drive (Is. 59:19). Hiph. הֵנִיס: to put to flight (Deut. 32:30), or remove secretly (Ex. 9:20). Hithpal. הִתְנוֹסֵס: to flee (Ps. 60:6).

Verb Qal imperative second person masculine plural

LXX: ἔφυγεν ἔφυγον φυγεῖν '' φεύξονται

LXX Usage Statistics

H5127:

ἔφυγεν 34× (21.0%)

ἔφυγον 26× (15.7%)

φυγεῖν 8× (5.0%)

'' 6× (3.5%)

φεύξονται 4× (2.6%)

φεύξεται 4× (2.5%)

φεύγετε 4× (2.7%)

φεύγειν 4× (2.1%)

ἀπέδρα 3× (1.9%)

φύγωμεν 3× (2.1%)

מלטו מַלְּטוּ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

מלט

mâlaṭ

Definition

properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks; deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, [idiom] speedily, [idiom] surely.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4422

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

מָלַט

verb • Root מלט • Strongs / High • Page 857

To be smooth, slippery; hence to glide along, slip away, escape, flee. In derived stems (binyanim): (Nif.) to escape, be delivered; (Pih.) to deliver, let escape, save, preserve; (Hif.) to deliver; (Hithp.) to get away in haste, to escape.

מָלַט

verb • Root מלט • Strongs / High • Page 857

An unused root meaning to be soft, tough, viscous, as of mortar or cement.

מָלַט

verb • Strongs / High • Page 858

to be soft, tender, mild.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

מָלַט

verb • Page 379

In Kal not used. Literally to be smooth.

Verb Piel imperative second person masculine plural

LXX: σωθήσεται διεσώθη διασωθῇ ἐσώθη ---%

LXX Usage Statistics

H4422:

σωθήσεται 7× (7.4%)

διεσώθη 7× (6.8%)

διασωθῇ 3× (3.3%)

ἐσώθη 3× (3.3%)

---% 3× (2.6%)

ἐσώθησαν 3× (2.9%)

σωθῇσ 3× (3.3%)

σῳζόμενον 3× (2.6%)

ῥύσεται 3× (3.3%)

σωθῇ 2× (2.2%)

נפשכם נַפְשְׁכֶם

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

נפש

nephesh

Definition

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

Root

from H5314 (נפש);

Exhaustive

from נפש; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H5315

כם

Definition

your, personal posessive - noun suffix: 2nd person masculine plural

Root

Exhaustive

Personal posessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 2nd person masculine plural

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H9026

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

נֶפֶשׁ

noun / feminine • Root נפש • Strongs / High • Page 982

A breath, respiration. 1. Breath of life, vital power, life, the animal life. 2. The soul or spirit, which gives life and has needs and feelings. 3. A living being, a creature, an individual, a person, a slave, a corpse. 4. Self, used reflexively. Also used to denote the seat of affections like love, joy, fear, piety, courage, and as the seat of various states like lamentation, hunger, thirst, etc.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

נֶפֶשׁ

com. gen. but more frequently fem. • Root נפש • Page 451

1. breath (Job 41:13); 2. life, the vital principle in animal bodies, anima (Gen. 35:18, 1 K. 17:21); 3. a living being, particularly spoken of men and sometimes slaves (Josh. 10:28, Gen. 1:20, 12:5); 4. the soul, spirit, as the seat of the volitions and affections (Deut. 26:16, Cant. 1:7); 5. desire, including the desire of eating or hunger (Gen. 23:8, Prov. 6:30, 13:4); 6. scent, fragrancy, odour (Is. 3:20).

Noun common both singular construct, Suffix pronominal second person masculine plural

LXX: ψυχή ψυχήν ψυχὴν ψυχὴ ψυχῆσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H5315:

ψυχή 126× (15.5%)

ψυχήν 119× (14.6%)

ψυχὴν 89× (11.4%)

ψυχὴ 88× (10.9%)

ψυχῆσ 82× (10.3%)

ψυχῇ 55× (6.9%)

ψυχὰσ 38× (4.8%)

ψυχαὶ 21× (2.8%)

ψυχαῖσ 17× (2.1%)

'' 15× (1.9%)

ותהיינה וְתִהְיֶ֕ינָה

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ו

wə

Definition

and

Root

From H8505; a prefix

Exhaustive

The conjunctive ו is not merely a fixed coordinator with a stable semantic value (“and/but/or/then”). Its core function is linkage, not meaning. It binds units into a single discourse field—phrases, clauses, or whole scenes—while leaving the logical relation to be inferred from aspect, word order, genre, and context.

So the variability in translation (“and / but / or / even / then”) is not polyvalence in the particle; it is underspecification by design. The language expects the reader/hearer to perceive the relation rather than have it encoded.

Crucially, conjunctive ו does not imply temporal sequence. It implies continuity of attention. Think of it as:
- “this belongs with what precedes,”
- “remain within the same frame,”
“do not reset the discourse.”
This is why Hebrew can chain dozens of clauses with ו without subordination or explicit logic markers. The text advances by accumulation, not by branching syntactic trees. Meaning arises from the interaction:
- Aspect (qatal / yiqtol / participle),
- Position (fronted elements, resumptive nouns),
- Genre (law, narrative, oracle),
- Context (who speaks, to whom).
The ו simply keeps the circuit closed so these cues can operate together. Remove tense assumptions, and the system becomes coherent.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

היה

hâyâh

Definition

to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

Root

a primitive root (compare H1933 (הוא));

Exhaustive

a primitive root (compare הוא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1961

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

הָיָה

verb • Root היה • Strongs / High • Page 397

To be, to exist, to live, to become. A substantive verb used to unite a subject and predicate. It can also mean to happen, to arise, or to belong to. Used in a wide variety of grammatical constructions.

הָיָה

verb • Root היה • Strongs / High • Page 591

To be, to become, to exist. The common Hebrew verb for 'to be', considered the root of the divine name.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

הַיָּה

noun feminine • Page 185

Keri הַוָּה suffering, calamity. Job 6: 2; 30: 13.

הָיָה

verb • Page 184

1. To be (Ex. 20:3, Num. 10:31, etc.); 2. to become (Ex. 4:4, Hos. 3:3, etc.); 3. to happen (Is. 19:15).

Conjunction, Verb Qal third person feminine plural

LXX: ἔσται ἐγένετο ἦν ἐγενήθη ἔσονται

LXX Usage Statistics

H1961:

ἔσται 827× (22.9%)

ἐγένετο 634× (16.8%)

ἦν 280× (7.9%)

ἐγενήθη 215× (5.8%)

ἔσονται 160× (4.5%)

ἦσαν 134× (3.8%)

ἐγένοντο 83× (2.3%)

'' 74× (1.9%)

--- 73× (2.2%)

εἶναι 67× (1.7%)

כערוער כַּעֲרוֹעֵר

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

כ

kə

Definition

like, as

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix Derived terms כאשר‎ (ka'ashér) כמו‎ (k'mó) כמות‎ (k'mót) כש־‎ (k'she-)

Exhaustive

(kaph) — as / like / according to

Core value: correspondence, patterning, resonance
כ never asserts identity. It asserts alignment.
- likeness,
- proportionality,
- conformity to a form.
Aonically, כ signals phase-alignment, not comparison.
not “like X in appearance” but “operating according to the same pattern as X.”
This is why prophetic and poetic language leans heavily on כ: it encodes structural analogy across layers, not metaphor.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

ערוער

ʻărôwʻêr

Definition

a juniper (from its nudity of situation)

Root

or ערער; from H6209 (ערר) reduplicated;

Exhaustive

or ערער; from ערר reduplicated; a juniper (from its nudity of situation); health.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H6176

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

עֲרוֹעֵר

unknown • Root ערער • Page 527

1. prob. i. q. עַרְעָר strictly naked, hence needy, driven out. 2. proper name of a city of the Gadites. 3. name of a place in the tribe of Judah.

Preposition, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H6176:

No stats available

במדבר בַּמִּדְבָּר׃

in the Desolate/Word-Wilderness

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ב

bə

Definition

in, by

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix

Exhaustive

(beth) — in / within / by means of

Core value: interiority, enclosure, participation

ב does not primarily mean “in time” (“when”) or even “in space.” It marks being inside a domain, whether that domain is:
- spatial (house, land),
- conceptual (wisdom, covenant),
- modal (strength, fear),
- instrumental (by means of).
Aonically, ב marks immersion.
not “when X happened” but “within the state or field of X.”
This is why ב־יום does not need to mean “on the day (chronological)” but “within the day-realm / condition”.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

מדבר

midbâr

Definition

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

Root

from H1696 (דבר) in the sense of driving;

Exhaustive

from דבר in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs); desert, south, speech, wilderness.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4057

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

מִדְבָּר

noun • Root דבר • Strongs / High • Page 351

Wilderness, pasture. Derived from דָּבַר II (to lead cattle to pasture).

מִדְבָּר

noun masculine • Root דבר • Strongs / High • Page 810

1. pasture, pasture land, a plain where grass plots are dried up from want of rain; then a steppe. 2. a dry, sterile wilderness. 3. lodge; then a desert generally, an uninhabited, forsaken place.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

מִדְבָּר

m. verbal / dec. ii. b. • Root דבר • Page 355

1. Speech (Cant. 4:3). 2. A wilderness, uncultivated barren country (Ps. 65:13). 3. An actual waste, a sandy desert (Is. 32:15).

Preposition -Within Art, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: ἐρήμῳ ἔρημον ἐρήμου ἔρημοσ pεἰσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H4057b:

ἐρήμῳ 128× (40.3%)

ἔρημον 60× (21.3%)

ἐρήμου 42× (15.1%)

ἔρημοσ 10× (4.2%)

pεἰσ 7× (3.0%)

ὡσ 6× (2.7%)

'' 6× (2.3%)

--- 2× (0.9%)

πεδίον 2× (0.8%)

RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
Flee, save your souls, and ye shall be as ruins in the desert.

LITV Translation:
Flee! Save your lives, and be like a naked thing in the wilderness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Ishmael went out to meet them; and they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Gedaliah.