Nahum 1:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גּוֹעֵ֤ר בַּיָּם֙ וַֽיַּבְּשֵׁ֔הוּ וְכָל־הַנְּהָר֖וֹת הֶֽחֱרִ֑יב אֻמְלַ֤ל בָּשָׁן֙ וְכַרְמֶ֔ל וּפֶ֥רַח לְבָנ֖וֹן אֻמְלָֽל׃

Transliteration

Gôʿēr ba-yyām wa-yyabbəšēhû wə-kol-hannəhārôt heḥĕrîb ʾumlal Bāšān wə-Karmel û-peraḥ Ləbānôn ʾumlāl

Grammar Details

*Gôʿēr*: Qal participle, masculine, singular - rebuking
*ba-yyām*: preposition + article + noun, masculine, singular - in/at the sea
*wa-yyabbəšēhû*: conjunction + Piel imperfect, 3ms + 3ms suffix - and he dries it up
*wə-kol*: conjunction + noun, construct - and all of
*hannəhārôt*: article + noun, masculine, plural - the rivers
*heḥĕrîb*: Hiphil perfect, 3ms - he dried up/made desolate
*ʾumlal*: Pulal perfect, 3ms - it withers/languishes
*Bāšān*: proper noun, place name
*wə-Karmel*: conjunction + proper noun, place name
*û-peraḥ*: conjunction + noun, masculine, singular - and flower/blossom of
*Ləbānôn*: proper noun, place name
*ʾumlāl*: Pulal perfect, 3ms - it withers/languishes

Word Meanings

*Gôʿēr*: rebuking/reproving/threatening
*yabbəšēhû*: dries it up/makes it dry
*heḥĕrîb*: dried up/made desolate/destroyed
*ʾumlal*: withers/languishes/fades/becomes weak
*peraḥ*: flower/blossom/bloom

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Referenced Verses

Isa 33:9 : 9 The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
Matt 8:26 : 26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Isa 44:27 : 27 that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
Isa 50:2-3 : 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isa 51:10 : 10 Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
Ezek 30:12 : 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
Amos 5:8 : 8 [ seek him] that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);
Ps 114:3 : 3 The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
Ps 114:5 : 5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?
Isa 19:5-9 : 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. 6 And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away. 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 8 And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded. 10 And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.
Josh 3:13-15 : 13 And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people; 15 and when they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,)
Job 38:11 : 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Ps 74:15 : 15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Ps 104:7 : 7 At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away

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