Joel 1:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־גוֹי֙ עָלָ֣ה עַל־אַרְצִ֔י עָצ֖וּם וְאֵ֣ין מִסְפָּ֑ר שִׁנָּיו֙ שִׁנֵּ֣י אַרְיֵ֔ה וּֽמְתַלְּע֥וֹת לָבִ֖יא לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Kî-gôy ʿālāh ʿal-ʾarṣî ʿāṣûm wə-ʾên mispār šinnāyw šinnê ʾaryêh û-məṯalləʿôṯ lāḇîʾ lô

Grammar Details

*Kî*: conjunction - for, because
*gôy*: noun, masculine singular - nation, people
*ʿālāh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - has come up, ascended
*ʿal*: preposition - against, upon
*ʾarṣî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person common singular suffix - my land
*ʿāṣûm*: adjective, masculine singular - mighty, strong
*wə*: conjunction - and
*ʾên*: particle of negation - there is no
*mispār*: noun, masculine singular - number, count
*šinnāyw*: noun, feminine plural construct + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its teeth
*šinnê*: noun, feminine plural construct - teeth of
*ʾaryêh*: noun, masculine singular - lion
*û*: conjunction - and
*məṯalləʿôṯ*: noun, feminine plural construct - fangs of
*lāḇîʾ*: noun, feminine singular - lioness
*lô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to it, belonging to it

Word Meanings

*gôy*: nation/people/heathen
*ʿālāh*: has come up/ascended/invaded
*ʿāṣûm*: mighty/strong/numerous
*mispār*: number/count/quantity
*ʾaryêh*: lion/powerful one
*məṯalləʿôṯ*: fangs/jaw teeth
*lāḇîʾ*: lioness/great lion

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Referenced Verses

Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Rev 9:7-9 : 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Prov 30:25-27 : 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Isa 8:8 : 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isa 32:13 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Joel 2:2-9 : 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

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