Habakkuk 2:20
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
קֹדֶשׁ
qôdesh
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
הֵיכָל
hêykâl
a large public building, such as a palace or temple
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
שָׁמַר
shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
דָּמַם
dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
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 preposi...
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּמַם dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
Study H1826 →שָׁמַר shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
Study H8104 →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.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
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