Nahum 1:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְשֶׁ֣טֶף עֹבֵ֔ר כָּלָ֖ה יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה מְקוֹמָ֑הּ וְאֹיְבָ֖יו יְרַדֶּף־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

Transliteration

Û-bəšeṭep ʿōbēr kālāh yaʿăśeh məqômāh wə-ʾōyəbāyw yəraddep-ḥōšek

Grammar Details

• *Û-bəšeṭep*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine, singular - and with an overflowing flood
• *ʿōbēr*: Qal participle, masculine, singular - passing/overflowing
• *kālāh*: noun, feminine, singular - complete destruction
• *yaʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect, 3ms - he will make
• *məqômāh*: noun, masculine, singular + 3fs suffix - her place
• *wə-ʾōyəbāyw*: conjunction + noun, masculine, plural + 3ms suffix - and his enemies
• *yəraddep*: Piel imperfect, 3ms - he will pursue
• *ḥōšek*: noun, masculine, singular - darkness

Word Meanings

• *šeṭep*: overflowing flood/overwhelming torrent
• *ʿōbēr*: passing/overflowing/sweeping through
• *kālāh*: complete destruction/annihilation/end
• *yaʿăśeh* *məqômāh*: will make her place/will destroy its place/will make an end of its site
• *yəraddep-ḥōšek*: will pursue into darkness/will chase into the dark

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:22 : 22 and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
• Isa 28:17 : 17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
• Amos 8:8 : 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
• Amos 9:5-6 : 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; 6 [ it is] he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name.
• Nah 1:1 : 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
• Nah 2:8 : 8 But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry]; but none looketh back.
• Zeph 2:13 : 13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
• Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 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.
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Ezek 13:13 : 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
• Dan 9:26 : 26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
• Dan 11:10 : 10 And his sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.
• Dan 11:22 : 22 And the overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
• Dan 11:40 : 40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
• Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
• Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
• Isa 8:7-8 : 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks; 8 and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.