Nahum 1
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
12Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH306810× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- לֹאlôʼH38085× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- עַלʻalH59214× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- כִּיkîyH35883× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- כֹּלkôlH36053× in this chapter
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- מִןminH44803× in this chapter
properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
- נָקַםnâqamH53583× in this chapter
to grudge, i.e. avenge or punish
- עָבַרʻâbarH56743× in this chapter
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
- עוֹדʻôwdH57503× in this chapter
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
- בְּלִיַּעַלbᵉlîyaʻalH11002× in this chapter
without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness
- הוּאhûwʼH19312× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הַרharH20222× in this chapter
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
- חֵמָהchêmâhH25342× in this chapter
heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
- חָשַׁבchâshabH28032× in this chapter
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
- אֹיֵבʼôyêbH3412× in this chapter
hating; an adversary
- כָּלָהkâlâhH36172× in this chapter
a completion; adverb, completely; also destruction
- כֵּןkênH36512× in this chapter
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
- כָּרַתkârathH37722× in this chapter
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
- מִיmîyH43102× in this chapter
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
- אָמַלʼâmalH5352× in this chapter
to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn
- נָקָהnâqâhH53522× in this chapter
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
- עָנָהʻânâhH60312× in this chapter
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62132× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- אַףʼaphH6392× in this chapter
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64402× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- צָרָהtsârâhH68692× in this chapter
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
- קוּםqûwmH69652× in this chapter
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
- רֶגֶלregelH72722× in this chapter
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בַּעַלbaʻalH11671× in this chapter
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
- בָּשָׁןBâshânH13161× in this chapter
Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan
- בָּשַׂרbâsarH13191× in this chapter
properly, to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, (figuratively) cheerful); to announce (glad news)
- גִּבְעָהgibʻâhH13891× in this chapter
a hillock
- גָּדוֹלgâdôwlH14191× in this chapter
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
- גַּזָזgazâzH14941× in this chapter
to cut off; specifically to shear aflock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy
- גָּעַרgâʻarH16051× in this chapter
to chide
- דֶּרֶךְderekH18701× in this chapter
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
- הִנֵּהhinnêhH20091× in this chapter
lo!
- זַעַםzaʻamH21951× in this chapter
strictly froth at the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) fury (especially of God's displeasure with sin)
- זָרַעzâraʻH22321× in this chapter
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify