Habakkuk 3:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שֶׁ֥מֶשׁ יָרֵ֖חַ עָ֣מַד זְבֻ֑לָה לְא֤וֹר חִצֶּ֙יךָ֙ יְהַלֵּ֔כוּ לְנֹ֖גַהּ בְּרַ֥ק חֲנִיתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Šemeš yārēaḥ stood zǝḇulāh, to light of ḥiṣṣeḵā they-move, to brightness of bǝraq ḥănîṯeḵā.

Grammar Details

• *šemeš*: noun masculine/feminine singular - sun
• *yārēaḥ*: noun masculine singular - moon
• *ʿāmaḏ*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - stood/stayed
• *zǝḇulāh*: noun masculine singular with directional he - in their lofty abode/habitation
• *lǝʾôr*: preposition *lə* with noun masculine singular construct - at the light of
• *ḥiṣṣeḵā*: noun masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your arrows
• *yǝhallēḵû*: piel imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they go forth/march/move
• *lǝnōḡah*: preposition *lə* with noun masculine singular construct - at the brightness of
• *bǝraq*: noun masculine singular construct - lightning/flash of
• *ḥănîṯeḵā*: noun feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your spear

Word Meanings

• *zǝḇulāh*: in their lofty dwelling/in their habitation/in their exalted place
• *yǝhallēḵû*: they march/they move/they go

Referenced Verses

• Ps 18:12-14 : 12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
• Ps 144:5-6 : 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
• Isa 28:21 : 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
• Isa 38:8 : 8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
• Ps 19:4 : 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
• Ps 77:17-18 : 17 The clouds poured out{H8776)} water: the skies sent out{H8804)} a sound: thine arrows also went abroad{H8691)}. 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened{H8689)} the world: the earth trembled{H8804)} and shook{H8799)}.
• Josh 10:11-13 : 11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.