Nahum 1:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֕ה אֶשְׁבֹּ֥ר מֹטֵ֖הוּ מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְ וּמוֹסְרֹתַ֖יִךְ אֲנַתֵּֽק׃

Transliteration

Wə-ʿattāh ʾešbōr mōṭēhû mēʿālāyik û-môsərōtayik ʾănattēq

Grammar Details

*Wə-ʿattāh*: conjunction + adverb - and now
*ʾešbōr*: Qal imperfect, 1s - I will break
*mōṭēhû*: noun, masculine, singular + 3ms suffix - his yoke/bar
*mēʿālāyik*: preposition + preposition + 2fs suffix - from upon you
*û-môsərōtayik*: conjunction + noun, feminine, plural + 2fs suffix - and your bonds/fetters
*ʾănattēq*: Piel imperfect, 1s - I will tear off/burst

Word Meanings

*ʾešbōr*: I will break/shatter/destroy
*mōṭēhû*: his yoke/bar/staff
*môsərōtayik*: your bonds/fetters/restraints
*ʾănattēq*: I will tear off/burst/snap/break apart

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 9:4 : 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
Isa 10:27 : 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
Isa 14:25 : 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.
Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.
Jer 5:5 : 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.
Mic 5:5-6 : 5 And this [man] shall be [our] peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border.

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