Nahum 1:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

But with an overflowing flood he will make an utter end of its place, 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his enemies into darkness.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But with an over-running{H5674} flood{H7858} he will make{H6213} a full end{H3617} of her place,{H4725} and will pursue{H7291} his enemies{H341} into darkness.{H2822}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But with an overrunning{H5674}{(H8802)} flood{H7858} he will make{H6213}{(H8799)} an utter end{H3617} of the place{H4725} thereof, and darkness{H2822} shall pursue{H7291}{(H8762)} his enemies{H341}{(H8802)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  when the floude renneth ouer, and destroyeth the place, and when the darcknesse foloweth still vpon his enemies.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But passing ouer as with a flood, he will vtterly destroy the place thereof, and darknesse shall pursue his enemies.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But with an ouerrunning flood he wil destroy her place, and will pursue his enemies with darkenesse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:22 : 22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into 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 Will not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? It shall rise up wholly like a flood; it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
• Amos 9:5-6 : 5 The Lord GOD of hosts, he who touches 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 who builds his chambers in the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours 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, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.
• Matt 8:12 : 12 But the children of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
• Ezek 13:13 : 13 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: I will rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
• Dan 9:26 : 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until 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 force of a flood, they shall be swept away from before him, and shall be broken; also the prince of the covenant.
• Dan 11:40 : 40 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, horsemen, and many ships; and he shall enter 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 passes away like a cloud.
• Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.
• Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings 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 your land, O Immanuel.