Nahum 1:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃

Transliteration

Kî ʿad-sîrîm səbukîm û-kəsābəʾām səbûʾîm ʾukkəlû kəqaš yābēš mālēʾ

Grammar Details

• *Kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʿad*: preposition - as far as/like
• *sîrîm*: noun, masculine, plural - thorns/thorny plants
• *səbukîm*: Qal passive participle, masculine, plural - entangled/intertwined
• *û-kəsābəʾām*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine, singular + 3mp suffix - and like their drinking
• *səbûʾîm*: Qal passive participle, masculine, plural - drunken
• *ʾukkəlû*: Pual perfect, 3cp - they are consumed
• *kəqaš*: preposition + noun, masculine, singular - like stubble
• *yābēš*: adjective, masculine, singular - dry
• *mālēʾ*: adjective, masculine, singular - full/completely

Word Meanings

• *sîrîm*: thorns/thorny plants/brambles
• *səbukîm*: entangled/intertwined/interwoven
• *sābəʾām*: their drinking/their carousing
• *səbûʾîm*: drunken/intoxicated
• *ʾukkəlû*: they are consumed/devoured/burned up
• *qaš*: stubble/chaff/straw
• *mālēʾ*: full/completely/fully

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
• Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Nah 3:11 : 11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
• 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
• 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
• Ps 68:2 : 2 As smoke is driven away{H8736)}, so drive them away{H8799)}: as wax melteth{H8736)} before the fire, so let the wicked perish{H8799)} at the presence of God.
• Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
• Isa 10:17-19 : 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
• Isa 27:4 : 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
• Jer 51:39 : 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
• Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.