Nahum 1:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֕ה אֶשְׁבֹּ֥ר מֹטֵ֖הוּ מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְ וּמוֹסְרֹתַ֖יִךְ אֲנַתֵּֽק׃

Transliteration

Wə-ʿattāh ʾešbōr mōṭēhû mēʿālāyik û-môsərōtayik ʾănattēq

Grammar Details

*Wə-ʿattāh*: conjunction + adverb - and now
*ʾešbōr*: Qal imperfect, 1s - I will break
*mōṭēhû*: noun, masculine, singular + 3ms suffix - his yoke/bar
*mēʿālāyik*: preposition + preposition + 2fs suffix - from upon you
*û-môsərōtayik*: conjunction + noun, feminine, plural + 2fs suffix - and your bonds/fetters
*ʾănattēq*: Piel imperfect, 1s - I will tear off/burst

Word Meanings

*ʾešbōr*: I will break/shatter/destroy
*mōṭēhû*: his yoke/bar/staff
*môsərōtayik*: your bonds/fetters/restraints
*ʾănattēq*: I will tear off/burst/snap/break apart

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 9:4 : 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
Isa 10:27 : 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Isa 14:25 : 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
Jer 5:5 : 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Mic 5:5-6 : 5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

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