Nahum 3:6
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
שִׁקּוּץ
shiqqûwts
disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
קָלָה
qâlâh
to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
רֳאִי
rŏʼîy
sight, whether abstractly (vision) or concretely (a spectacle)
Key Terms in This Verse
רֳאִי rŏʼîy
sight, whether abstractly (vision) or concretely (a spectacle)
Study H7210 →שִׁקּוּץ shiqqûwts
disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol
Study H8251 →קָלָה qâlâh
to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt)
Study H7034 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for t...
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of ete...
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth b...
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed the...
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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