Nahum 2:10
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רוּק
rûwq
to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty
חָרַב
chârab
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
מָסַס
mâçaç
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
נָכָה
nâkâh
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
חַלְחָלָה
chalchâlâh
writhing (in childbirth); by implication, terror
מֹתֶן
môthen
properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
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...
כִּמְרִיר
kimrîyr
obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. an eclipse (only in plural)
Key Terms in This Verse
כִּמְרִיר kimrîyr
obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. an eclipse (only in plural)
Study H3650 →מָסַס mâçaç
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
Study H4549 →מֹתֶן môthen
properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
Study H4975 →חָרַב chârab
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Study H2717 →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
Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
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.
Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth bene...
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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