Micah 1:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָמַ֤סּוּ הֶֽהָרִים֙ תַּחְתָּ֔יו וְהָעֲמָקִ֖ים יִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ כַּדּוֹנַג֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י הָאֵ֔שׁ כְּמַ֖יִם מֻגָּרִ֥ים בְּמוֹרָֽד׃

Transliteration

And-nāmassû the-hehārîm beneath-him and-the-ʿămāqîm yiṯbaqqāʿû like-the-dônaḡ from-presence-of the-ʾēš like-mayim muggārîm in-môrāḏ

Grammar Details

*nāmassû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they will melt/dissolve
*hehārîm*: common noun with definite article, masculine plural - the mountains
*ʿămāqîm*: common noun with definite article, masculine plural - the valleys
*yiṯbaqqāʿû*: hitpael imperfect, 3rd common plural - they will split themselves/burst open
*dônaḡ*: common noun, masculine singular - wax
*ʾēš*: common noun with definite article, feminine singular - the fire
*mayim*: common noun, masculine plural - waters
*muggārîm*: hophal participle, masculine plural - poured out/flowing down
*môrāḏ*: common noun, masculine singular - slope/descent

Word Meanings

*nāmassû*: melt/dissolve/liquefy
*yiṯbaqqāʿû*: split open/burst/cleave
*dônaḡ*: wax/beeswax
*muggārîm*: poured down/flowing down/cascading
*môrāḏ*: slope/descent/steep place

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Referenced Verses

Nah 1:5 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Ps 97:5 : 5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isa 64:1-3 : 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence, 2 as when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
Amos 9:5 : 5 For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, [is] he that toucheth the land and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt;
Judg 5:4 : 4 Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
Hab 3:6 : 6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were [as] of old.
Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.
Zech 14:4 : 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; {G1722} {G3571} in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein {G846} shall be burned up. 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Ps 68:2 : 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

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