Habakkuk 1:13
Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
זָכַךְ
zâkak
to be transparent or clean (phys. or morally)
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
יָכֹל
yâkôl
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
נָבַט
nâbaṭ
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
בָּגַד
bâgad
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
חָשַׁב
châshab
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious...
לָשׁוֹן
lâshôwn
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame,...
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָבַט nâbaṭ
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
Study H5027 →חָשַׁב châshab
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, ...
Study H2803 →בָּגַד bâgad
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
Study H898 →לָשׁוֹן lâshôwn
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
Study H3956 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →Cross References
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt ...
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who kn...
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son...
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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