Nahum 1:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גּוֹעֵ֤ר בַּיָּם֙ וַֽיַּבְּשֵׁ֔הוּ וְכָל־הַנְּהָר֖וֹת הֶֽחֱרִ֑יב אֻמְלַ֤ל בָּשָׁן֙ וְכַרְמֶ֔ל וּפֶ֥רַח לְבָנ֖וֹן אֻמְלָֽל׃

Transliteration

Gôʿēr ba-yyām wa-yyabbəšēhû wə-kol-hannəhārôt heḥĕrîb ʾumlal Bāšān wə-Karmel û-peraḥ Ləbānôn ʾumlāl

Grammar Details

*Gôʿēr*: Qal participle, masculine, singular - rebuking
*ba-yyām*: preposition + article + noun, masculine, singular - in/at the sea
*wa-yyabbəšēhû*: conjunction + Piel imperfect, 3ms + 3ms suffix - and he dries it up
*wə-kol*: conjunction + noun, construct - and all of
*hannəhārôt*: article + noun, masculine, plural - the rivers
*heḥĕrîb*: Hiphil perfect, 3ms - he dried up/made desolate
*ʾumlal*: Pulal perfect, 3ms - it withers/languishes
*Bāšān*: proper noun, place name
*wə-Karmel*: conjunction + proper noun, place name
*û-peraḥ*: conjunction + noun, masculine, singular - and flower/blossom of
*Ləbānôn*: proper noun, place name
*ʾumlāl*: Pulal perfect, 3ms - it withers/languishes

Word Meanings

*Gôʿēr*: rebuking/reproving/threatening
*yabbəšēhû*: dries it up/makes it dry
*heḥĕrîb*: dried up/made desolate/destroyed
*ʾumlal*: withers/languishes/fades/becomes weak
*peraḥ*: flower/blossom/bloom

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Referenced Verses

Isa 33:9 : 9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Matt 8:26 : 26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Isa 44:27 : 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Isa 50:2-3 : 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isa 51:10 : 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Ezek 30:12 : 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
Amos 5:8 : 8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
Ps 114:3 : 3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Ps 114:5 : 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Isa 19:5-9 : 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
Josh 3:13-15 : 13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,(for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
Job 38:11 : 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Ps 74:15 : 15 Thou didst cleave{H8804)} the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up{H8689)} mighty rivers.
Ps 104:7 : 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

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