Habakkuk 1:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־הִנְנִ֤י מֵקִים֙ אֶת־הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים הַגּ֖וֹי הַמַּ֣ר וְהַנִּמְהָ֑ר הַֽהוֹלֵךְ֙ לְמֶרְחֲבֵי־אֶ֔רֶץ לָרֶ֖שֶׁת מִשְׁכָּנ֥וֹת לֹּא־לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

For-behold-I mēqîm ʾeṯ-the-kaśdîm the-gôy the-mar and-the-nimhār the-hôlēḵ to-merḥăḇê-ʾereṣ to-lārešeṯ miškānôṯ not-to-him

Grammar Details

• *kî-hinənî*: conjunction + interjection + 1st person singular suffix - for behold I
• *mēqîm*: verb, Hiphil participle, masculine singular - raising up/establishing
• *ʾeṯ-hakkaśdîm*: direct object marker + definite article + noun, masculine plural - the Chaldeans
• *haggôy*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the nation
• *hammar*: definite article + adjective, masculine singular - the bitter
• *wə-hannimhār*: conjunction + definite article + Niphal participle, masculine singular - and the impetuous
• *hahôlēḵ*: definite article + Qal participle, masculine singular - the one walking/going
• *ləmerḥăḇê-ʾereṣ*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct + noun, feminine singular - to breadths of earth
• *lārešeṯ*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to possess/inherit
• *miškānôṯ*: noun, feminine plural - dwelling places/habitations
• *lōʾ-lô*: negative particle + preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - not his

Word Meanings

• *mēqîm*: raising up/establishing/causing to arise
• *kaśdîm*: Chaldeans/Babylonians
• *gôy*: nation/people
• *mar*: bitter/fierce/cruel
• *nimhār*: impetuous/hasty/rash/impulsive
• *hôlēḵ*: walking/going/marching
• *merḥăḇê*: breadths/expanses/wide spaces
• *ʾereṣ*: earth/land/territory
• *lārešeṯ*: to possess/to inherit/to take possession of
• *miškānôṯ*: dwelling places/habitations/residences

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 24:2 : 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
• Jer 5:15 : 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
• Jer 6:22-23 : 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
• Jer 21:4 : 4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
• Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Deut 28:49-52 : 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
• 2 Chr 36:6 : 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
• 2 Chr 36:17 : 17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
• Isa 23:13 : 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
• Isa 39:6-7 : 6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
• Jer 1:15-16 : 15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. 16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
• Jer 4:6 : 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
• Jer 4:8 : 8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.