Habakkuk 2:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י ע֤וֹד חָזוֹן֙ לַמּוֹעֵ֔ד וְיָפֵ֥חַ לַקֵּ֖ץ וְלֹ֣א יְכַזֵּ֑ב אִם־יִתְמַהְמָהּ֙ חַכֵּה־ל֔וֹ כִּֽי־בֹ֥א יָבֹ֖א לֹ֥א יְאַחֵֽר׃

Transliteration

For still ḥāzôn for hammôʿēd and yāpēaḥ to haqqēṣ and not yĕkazzēb if yitmahĕmahh ḥakkēh for it for bōʾ yābōʾ not yĕʾaḥēr.

Grammar Details

• *ḥāzôn*: noun, masculine, singular - vision
• *hammôʿēd*: noun, masculine, singular with definite article - the appointed time
• *yāpēaḥ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it pants/hastens/speaks
• *haqqēṣ*: noun, masculine, singular with definite article - the end
• *yĕkazzēb*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will lie/deceive
• *yitmahĕmahh*: verb, hithpalpel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it tarries/delays
• *ḥakkēh*: verb, piel imperative, masculine singular - wait
• *bōʾ yābōʾ*: verb, qal infinitive absolute + qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - surely come
• *yĕʾaḥēr*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will delay

Word Meanings

• *hammôʿēd*: appointed time/fixed time/festival
• *yāpēaḥ*: pants/hastens/speaks/testifies
• *haqqēṣ*: the end/conclusion/appointed time
• *bōʾ yābōʾ*: surely coming/definitely will come

Referenced Verses

• Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
• Dan 10:14 : 14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter ys: for yet the vision is for many ys.
• Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
• Lam 3:25-26 : 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
• Ezek 12:25 : 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
• 2 Thess 2:6-8 : 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
• Ps 102:13 : 13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
• Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
• Dan 8:19 : 19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
• Luke 18:7-8 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
• Acts 1:7 : 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
• Dan 11:35 : 35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
• Mic 7:7 : 7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
• Exod 12:41 : 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
• 2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
• Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• Gal 4:2 : 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
• Dan 8:17 : 17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
• Jer 25:12-14 : 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which emiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
• Luke 2:25 : 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
• Dan 9:24-10:1 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: 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 unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto niel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
• Dan 11:27 : 27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
• Acts 17:26 : 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the fe of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
• Jer 27:7 : 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.