Zephaniah 1:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קָר֤וֹב יוֹם־יְהוָה֙ הַגָּד֔וֹל קָר֖וֹב וּמַהֵ֣ר מְאֹ֑ד ק֚וֹל י֣וֹם יְהוָ֔ה מַ֥ר צֹרֵ֖חַ שָׁ֥ם גִּבּֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

qārôḇ yôm-YHWH haggāḏôl, qārôḇ ûmahēr məʾōḏ. qôl yôm YHWH mar ṣōrēaḥ šām gibbôr.

Grammar Details

• *qārôḇ*: adjective, masculine singular - near/at hand
• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular construct - day of
• *YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
• *haggāḏôl*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the great
• *ûmahēr*: conjunction + piel participle, masculine singular absolute - and hastening
• *məʾōḏ*: adverb - very/exceedingly
• *qôl*: noun, masculine singular construct - sound of
• *mar*: adjective, masculine singular - bitter
• *ṣōrēaḥ*: qal participle, masculine singular - crying out
• *šām*: adverb - there
• *gibbôr*: adjective/noun, masculine singular - mighty warrior

Word Meanings

• *qārôḇ*: near/imminent/approaching
• *haggāḏôl*: the great/mighty/important
• *ûmahēr*: and hastening/rushing/coming quickly
• *mar*: bitter/severe/harsh
• *ṣōrēaḥ*: crying out/shouting/screaming
• *gibbôr*: mighty warrior/mighty man/hero

Referenced Verses

• Joel 2:11 : 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
• 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.
• Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
• Jer 30:7 : 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
• Isa 33:7 : 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
• Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
• Mal 4:5 : 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
• Acts 2:20 : 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
• Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
• Heb 12:26 : 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
• Jas 5:9 : 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
• Joel 1:15 : 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
• Joel 2:1 : 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
• Zeph 1:10 : 10 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.
• Joel 2:31 : 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
• Joel 3:16 : 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
• Amos 8:2 : 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
• Isa 66:6 : 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
• Jer 25:36 : 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
• Isa 15:4 : 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
• 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.
• Jer 48:41 : 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
• Ezek 7:6-7 : 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
• Ezek 12:23 : 23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.