Topic
Magor-missabib
8 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Jeremiah 20:3Easton · ISBE
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
- Psalms 31:13ISBE
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Jeremiah 6:25ISBE
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
- Jeremiah 20:3–6Nave A symbolical name given by Jeremiah to Pashur
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and…
- Jeremiah 20:10ISBE
¶ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Jeremiah 46:5ISBE
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 49:29ISBE
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
- Lamentations 2:22ISBE
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
Fear on every side, (Jer. 20:3), a symbolical name given to the priest Pashur, expressive of the fate announced by the prophet as about to come upon him. Pashur was to be carried to Babylon, and there die.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
ma'-gor-mis'-a-bib (maghor miccabhibh, "terror on every side"): A name given by Jeremiah to Pashhur ben Immer, the governor of the temple, who had caused the prophet to be beaten and set in the stocks (Jer 20:3). The same expression is used (not as a proper name) in several other passages (Ps 31:13; Jer 6:25; 20:10; 46:5; 49:29; La 2:22).
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 1 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → A symbolical name given by Jeremiah to Pashur Jer 20:3-6
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.