Nahum 1:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְשֶׁ֣טֶף עֹבֵ֔ר כָּלָ֖ה יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה מְקוֹמָ֑הּ וְאֹיְבָ֖יו יְרַדֶּף־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

Transliteration

Û-bəšeṭep ʿōbēr kālāh yaʿăśeh məqômāh wə-ʾōyəbāyw yəraddep-ḥōšek

Grammar Details

• *Û-bəšeṭep*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine, singular - and with an overflowing flood
• *ʿōbēr*: Qal participle, masculine, singular - passing/overflowing
• *kālāh*: noun, feminine, singular - complete destruction
• *yaʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect, 3ms - he will make
• *məqômāh*: noun, masculine, singular + 3fs suffix - her place
• *wə-ʾōyəbāyw*: conjunction + noun, masculine, plural + 3ms suffix - and his enemies
• *yəraddep*: Piel imperfect, 3ms - he will pursue
• *ḥōšek*: noun, masculine, singular - darkness

Word Meanings

• *šeṭep*: overflowing flood/overwhelming torrent
• *ʿōbēr*: passing/overflowing/sweeping through
• *kālāh*: complete destruction/annihilation/end
• *yaʿăśeh* *məqômāh*: will make her place/will destroy its place/will make an end of its site
• *yəraddep-ḥōšek*: will pursue into darkness/will chase into the dark

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:22 : 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
• Isa 28:17 : 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
• Amos 8:8 : 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
• Amos 9:5-6 : 5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
• Nah 1:1 : 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
• Nah 2:8 : 8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
• Zeph 2:13 : 13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
• Matt 8:12 : 12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 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.
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Ezek 13:13 : 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
• Dan 9:26 : 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
• Dan 11:10 : 10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
• Dan 11:22 : 22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
• Dan 11:40 : 40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
• Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
• Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
• Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 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.