Nahum 1:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָרִים֙ רָעֲשׁ֣וּ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְהַגְּבָע֖וֹת הִתְמֹגָ֑גוּ וַתִּשָּׂ֤א הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ מִפָּנָ֔יו וְתֵבֵ֖ל וְכָל־יֹ֥שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Hārîm rāʿăšû mimmennû wə-haggəbāʿôt hitmōgāgû wa-ttiśśāʾ hāʾāreṣ mippānāyw wə-tēbēl wə-kol-yōšəbê bāh

Grammar Details

*Hārîm*: noun, masculine, plural - mountains
*rāʿăšû*: Qal perfect, 3cp - they quake/tremble
*mimmennû*: preposition + 3ms suffix - from him
*wə-haggəbāʿôt*: conjunction + article + noun, feminine, plural - and the hills
*hitmōgāgû*: Hithpoel perfect, 3cp - they melt/dissolve
*wa-ttiśśāʾ*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3fs - and it lifts up/rises
*hāʾāreṣ*: article + noun, feminine, singular - the earth/land
*mippānāyw*: preposition + noun, plural + 3ms suffix - from his face/presence
*wə-tēbēl*: conjunction + noun, feminine, singular - and world/inhabited earth
*wə-kol*: conjunction + noun, construct - and all of
*yōšəbê*: Qal participle, masculine, plural, construct - dwellers of/inhabitants of
*bāh*: preposition + 3fs suffix - in it/her

Word Meanings

*rāʿăšû*: quake/tremble/shake
*hitmōgāgû*: melt/dissolve/flow down
*tiśśāʾ*: lifts up/rises/heaves
*mippānāyw*: from his face/presence/before him
*tēbēl*: world/inhabited part of earth/inhabited land

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Referenced Verses

Mic 1:4 : 4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Jer 4:24 : 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
2 Sam 22:8 : 8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
Judg 5:5 : 5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
Ps 68:8 : 8 The earth shook{H8804)}, the heavens also dropped{H8804)} at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Ps 97:4-5 : 4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isa 64:1-2 : 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Matt 27:51 : 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Matt 28:2 : 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
2 Pet 3:7-9 : 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Ps 98:7 : 7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Ps 114:4 : 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Ps 114:6 : 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
Isa 2:12-14 : 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
Exod 19:18 : 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Ps 29:5-6 : 5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Ps 46:6 : 6 The heathen raged{H8804)}, the kingdoms were moved{H8804)}: he uttered{H8804)} his voice, the earth melted{H8799)}.

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