Nahum 1:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃

Transliteration

Kî ʿad-sîrîm səbukîm û-kəsābəʾām səbûʾîm ʾukkəlû kəqaš yābēš mālēʾ

Grammar Details

• *Kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʿad*: preposition - as far as/like
• *sîrîm*: noun, masculine, plural - thorns/thorny plants
• *səbukîm*: Qal passive participle, masculine, plural - entangled/intertwined
• *û-kəsābəʾām*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine, singular + 3mp suffix - and like their drinking
• *səbûʾîm*: Qal passive participle, masculine, plural - drunken
• *ʾukkəlû*: Pual perfect, 3cp - they are consumed
• *kəqaš*: preposition + noun, masculine, singular - like stubble
• *yābēš*: adjective, masculine, singular - dry
• *mālēʾ*: adjective, masculine, singular - full/completely

Word Meanings

• *sîrîm*: thorns/thorny plants/brambles
• *səbukîm*: entangled/intertwined/interwoven
• *sābəʾām*: their drinking/their carousing
• *səbûʾîm*: drunken/intoxicated
• *ʾukkəlû*: they are consumed/devoured/burned up
• *qaš*: stubble/chaff/straw
• *mālēʾ*: full/completely/fully

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
• Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Nah 3:11 : 11 Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
• 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
• 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
• 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand; 7 But the man that toucheth them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear: And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place.
• 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.
• Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
• Isa 10:17-19 : 17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. 18 And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. 19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
• Isa 27:4 : 4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
• Jer 51:39 : 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
• Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.