Nahum 1:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָרִים֙ רָעֲשׁ֣וּ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְהַגְּבָע֖וֹת הִתְמֹגָ֑גוּ וַתִּשָּׂ֤א הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ מִפָּנָ֔יו וְתֵבֵ֖ל וְכָל־יֹ֥שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Hārîm rāʿăšû mimmennû wə-haggəbāʿôt hitmōgāgû wa-ttiśśāʾ hāʾāreṣ mippānāyw wə-tēbēl wə-kol-yōšəbê bāh

Grammar Details

*Hārîm*: noun, masculine, plural - mountains
*rāʿăšû*: Qal perfect, 3cp - they quake/tremble
*mimmennû*: preposition + 3ms suffix - from him
*wə-haggəbāʿôt*: conjunction + article + noun, feminine, plural - and the hills
*hitmōgāgû*: Hithpoel perfect, 3cp - they melt/dissolve
*wa-ttiśśāʾ*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3fs - and it lifts up/rises
*hāʾāreṣ*: article + noun, feminine, singular - the earth/land
*mippānāyw*: preposition + noun, plural + 3ms suffix - from his face/presence
*wə-tēbēl*: conjunction + noun, feminine, singular - and world/inhabited earth
*wə-kol*: conjunction + noun, construct - and all of
*yōšəbê*: Qal participle, masculine, plural, construct - dwellers of/inhabitants of
*bāh*: preposition + 3fs suffix - in it/her

Word Meanings

*rāʿăšû*: quake/tremble/shake
*hitmōgāgû*: melt/dissolve/flow down
*tiśśāʾ*: lifts up/rises/heaves
*mippānāyw*: from his face/presence/before him
*tēbēl*: world/inhabited part of earth/inhabited land

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Referenced Verses

Mic 1:4 : 4 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.
Jer 4:24 : 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
2 Sam 22:8 : 8 Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of heaven quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
Judg 5:5 : 5 The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Ps 68:8 : 8 The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped [rain] at the presence of God: Yon Sinai [trembled] at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Ps 97:4-5 : 4 His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled. 5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isa 64:1-2 : 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!
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.
Matt 27:51 : 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent;
Matt 28:2 : 2 And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.
2 Pet 3:7-9 : 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 8 But {G0} forget {G5209} not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 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 98:7 : 7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein;
Ps 114:4 : 4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
Ps 114:6 : 6 Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs?
Isa 2:12-14 : 12 For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; 13 and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14 and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
Exod 19:18 : 18 And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Ps 29:5-6 : 5 The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
Ps 46:6 : 6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

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