Micah 1:8
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
נָהָה
nâhâh
to groan, i.e. bewail; hence (through the idea of crying aloud), to assemble (as if on proclamation)
יָלַל
yâlal
to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
פָּשַׁט
pâshaṭ
to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array); by analogy, to strip (i.e. unclothe, plunder, flay, etc.)
עָרוֹם
ʻârôwm
nude, either partially or totally
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
תַּנִּין
tannîyn
a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
בַּת
bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָהָה nâhâh
to groan, i.e. bewail; hence (through the idea of crying aloud), to assemble (as if on proclamation)
Study H5091 →בַּת bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Study H1323 →פָּשַׁט pâshaṭ
to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array); by analogy, to strip (i.e. unclothe, plunder, flay, etc.)
Study H6584 →Cross References
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear th...
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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