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

She is

רוּק

rûwq

H7324

to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty

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and

חָסֵר

châçêr

H2638

lacking; hence, without

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and

חָרַב

chârab

H2717

to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill

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and the

לֵב

lêb

H3820

the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything

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מָסַס

mâçaç

H4549

to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)

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and the

בֶּרֶךְ

berek

H1290

a knee

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נָכָה

nâkâh

H5221

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

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יַחַד

yachad

H3162

properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly

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and

רַב

rab

H7227

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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חַלְחָלָה

chalchâlâh

H2479

writhing (in childbirth); by implication, terror

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is in all

מֹתֶן

môthen

H4975

properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins

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and the

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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of them all

קָבַץ

qâbats

H6908

to grasp, i.e. collect

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כִּמְרִיר

kimrîyr

H3650

obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. an eclipse (only in plural)

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Key Terms in This Verse

blackness H3650

כִּמְרִיר kimrîyr

obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. an eclipse (only in plural)

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melteth H4549

מָסַס mâçaç

to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)

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void H2638

חָסֵר châçêr

lacking; hence, without

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pain H2479

חַלְחָלָה chalchâlâh

writhing (in childbirth); by implication, terror

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knees H1290

בֶּרֶךְ berek

a knee

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empty H7324

רוּק rûwq

to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty

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loins H4975

מֹתֶן môthen

properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins

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waste H2717

חָרַב chârab

to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill

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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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smite H5221

נָכָה nâkâh

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

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Cross References

Daniel 5:6 cross-reference

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.

Joel 2:6 cross-reference

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Psalm 22:14 cross-reference

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.

Jeremiah 30:6 cross-reference

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?

Isaiah 24:1 cross-reference

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 21:3 cross-reference

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.

Jeremiah 51:62 cross-reference

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.

Isaiah 14:23 cross-reference

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.

Zephaniah 3:6 cross-reference

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.

Nahum 3:7 cross-reference

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?

Joshua 2:11 cross-reference

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...

Genesis 1:2 cross-reference

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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