Jeremiah 46:20
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.

Young's Literal Translation
A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

King James Bible
Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

Hebrew
Egypt
מִצְרָ֑יִם (miṣ·rā·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

is a beautiful
פִיָּ֖ה (p̄î·yāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 3304: Very beautiful

heifer,
עֶגְלָ֥ה (‘eḡ·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5697: A, calf, one nearly grown

but a gadfly
קֶ֥רֶץ (qe·reṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7171: Perhaps nipping

from the north
מִצָּפ֖וֹן (miṣ·ṣā·p̄ō·wn)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6828: Hidden, dark, the north as a, quarter

is coming against her.
בָּ֥א (bā)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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