Habakkuk 3:14
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly."
Word-by-Word Analysis
תָּקַע
tâqaʻ
to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become ...
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
בַּד
bad
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositio...
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
חָצֵר
châtsêr
a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
פּוּץ
pûwts
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
שָׂחַק
sâchaq
to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play
עָנִי
ʻânîy
depressed, in mind or circumstances
סֵתֶר
çêther
a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
Key Terms in This Verse
תָּקַע tâqaʻ
to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
Study H8628 →סֵתֶר çêther
a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
Study H5643 →שָׂחַק sâchaq
to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play
Study H7832 →פּוּץ pûwts
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
Study H6327 →בַּד bad
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides
Study H905 →חָצֵר châtsêr
a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)
Study H2691 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →Cross References
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he sha...
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeh...
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
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