Zephaniah 1:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֩ בַיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה ק֤וֹל צְעָקָה֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר הַדָּגִ֔ים וִֽילָלָ֖ה מִן־הַמִּשְׁנֶ֑ה וְשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּד֖וֹל מֵהַגְּבָעֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

wəhāyāh in-hayyôm hahûʾ, nəʾum-YHWH, qôl ṣəʿāqāh from-šaʿar haddāḡîm, wîlālāh from-hammišneh, wəšeḇer gāḏôl from-haggəḇāʿôṯ.

Grammar Details

*wəhāyāh*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
*hayyôm*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the day
*hahûʾ*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that
*nəʾum*: construct state, masculine singular - declaration/oracle of
*YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
*qôl*: noun, masculine singular construct - sound of
*ṣəʿāqāh*: noun, feminine singular - outcry/cry
*šaʿar*: noun, masculine singular construct - gate of
*haddāḡîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the fish
*wîlālāh*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and wailing
*hammišneh*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the Second Quarter (district)
*wəšeḇer*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and crash/breaking of
*gāḏôl*: adjective, masculine singular - great/loud
*haggəḇāʿôṯ*: noun, feminine plural with definite article - the hills

Word Meanings

*qôl ṣəʿāqāh*: sound of outcry/cry of distress
*šaʿar haddāḡîm*: Fish Gate (a gate in Jerusalem)
*hammišneh*: the Second Quarter/New Quarter (district of Jerusalem)
*wəšeḇer*: breaking/crash/destruction
*haggəḇāʿôṯ*: the hills (possibly referring to hills in Jerusalem)

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 33:14 : 14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
Neh 3:3 : 3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
2 Kgs 22:14 : 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe;(now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2 Chr 3:1 : 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chr 32:22 : 22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
2 Sam 5:7 : 7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
2 Sam 5:9 : 9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
Isa 22:4-5 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Jer 4:19-21 : 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jer 39:2 : 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Zeph 1:7 : 7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

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