Exodus 15:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright like a heap, and the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְר֤וּחַ אַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ נֶ֣עֶרְמוּ מַ֔יִם נִצְּב֥וּ כְמוֹ־נֵ֖ד נֹזְלִ֑ים קָֽפְא֥וּ תְהֹמֹ֖ת בְּלֶב־יָֽם׃

Transliteration

ūḇərūaḥ ʾappeḵā neʿermū mayim niṣṣəḇū ḵəmô-nēḏ nōzəlîm qāp̄əʾū təhōmōt bəleḇ-yām

Grammar Details

• *ūḇərūaḥ*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - and by the breath of
• *ʾappeḵā*: noun, masculine dual + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your nostrils
• *neʿermū*: niphal perfect 3rd common plural - they were heaped up
• *mayim*: noun, masculine plural - waters
• *niṣṣəḇū*: niphal perfect 3rd common plural - they stood up
• *ḵəmô*: preposition - like
• *nēḏ*: noun, masculine singular - heap
• *nōzəlîm*: qal participle, masculine plural - flowing ones
• *qāp̄əʾū*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they congealed/froze
• *təhōmōt*: noun, feminine plural - depths/deep waters
• *bəleḇ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in the heart of
• *yām*: noun, masculine singular - sea

Word Meanings

• *rūaḥ*: breath/wind/spirit
• *ʾappeḵā*: your nostrils/your nose/your anger
• *neʿermū*: were heaped up/were piled up/gathered together
• *nēḏ*: heap/mound/wall
• *nōzəlîm*: flowing ones/currents/streams
• *qāp̄əʾū*: congealed/froze/solidified
• *təhōmōt*: depths/deep waters/the deep

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  By the blast of Your nostrils, the waters piled up; the flowing waters stood like a wall; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  with the breth off thine anger the water gathered together and the flodes stode fiyll as a rocke ad the depe water congeled together in the myddest off the see.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  In the breth of thy wrath the waters fell together, the floudes wente vpon a heape: The depes plomped together in ye myddest of the see.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And by the blast of thy nostrels the waters were gathered, the floods stoode still as an heape, the depthes congealed together in the heart of the Sea.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Through the wynde of thy nosethrils the water gathered together, ye fluddes stoode styll as an heape, and the deepe water congeled together in the heart of the sea.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, [and] the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  With the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And by the spirit of Thine anger Have waters been heaped together; Stood as a heap have flowings; Congealed have been depths In the heart of a sea.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

• World English Bible (2000)

  With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 78:13 : 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.
• Exod 14:21-22 : 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
• Job 4:9 : 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils they are consumed.
• Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw You and trembled; the overflowing of the water passed by. The deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high.
• 2 Thess 2:8 : 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• 2 Sam 22:16 : 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were uncovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
• Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
• Isa 37:7 : 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.