Habakkuk 1:9

Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data

"They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand."

Word-by-Word Analysis

They shall

בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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all for

חָמָס

châmâç

H2555

violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain

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their

פָּנִים

pânîym

H6440

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...

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shall

מְגַמָּה

mᵉgammâh

H4041

properly, accumulation, i.e. impulse or direction

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up as the

קָדִים

qâdîym

H6921

the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)

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רוּחַ

rûwach

H7307

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...

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and they shall

קָבַץ

qâbats

H6908

to grasp, i.e. collect

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the

שְׁבוּת

shᵉbûwth

H7622

exile, concretely, prisoners; figuratively, a former state of prosperity

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as the

חוֹל

chôwl

H2344

sand (as round or whirling particles)

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Key Terms in This Verse

sup H4041

מְגַמָּה mᵉgammâh

properly, accumulation, i.e. impulse or direction

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sand H2344

חוֹל chôwl

sand (as round or whirling particles)

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violence H2555

חָמָס châmâç

violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain

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faces H6440

פָּנִים pânîym

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.)

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wind H7307

רוּחַ rûwach

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational...

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captivity H7622

שְׁבוּת shᵉbûwth

exile, concretely, prisoners; figuratively, a former state of prosperity

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east H6921

קָדִים qâdîym

the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)

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gather H6908

קָבַץ qâbats

to grasp, i.e. collect

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come H935

בּוֹא bôwʼ

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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Cross References

Jeremiah 25:9 cross-reference

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there...

Jeremiah 34:22 cross-reference

Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation wit...

Hosea 13:15 cross-reference

Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall...

Romans 9:27 cross-reference

Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

Isaiah 27:8 cross-reference

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Hosea 1:10 cross-reference

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my...

Ezekiel 17:10 cross-reference

Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

Jeremiah 4:11 cross-reference

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

Judges 7:12 cross-reference

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for mu...

Habakkuk 1:6 cross-reference

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

Jeremiah 4:7 cross-reference

The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabit...

Psalm 139:18 cross-reference

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Genesis 41:49 cross-reference

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

Job 29:18 cross-reference

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Ezekiel 19:12 cross-reference

But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

Jeremiah 15:8 cross-reference

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors ...

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