Habakkuk 3:14 — King James Version← Study notes

“Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.”

Habakkuk 3:14 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Habakkuk 3:1412 words

HebrewMeaning

נָקַ֤בְתָּnāqabətā

you piercedverbH5344

blaspheme · bore · curse · express ···

בְ/מַטָּי/ו֙bəmaṭāyw

with own arrows hispronH4294

staff · tribe

רֹ֣אשׁrōʾš

the head ofnounH7218

beginning · captain · chapiter · chief(-est place ···

פרז/וprzw

villagenounH6518

פְּרָזָ֔י/וpərāzāyw

villagenounH6518

יִסְעֲר֖וּyisəʿărw

they stormverbH5590

be sore · troubled · come out as a (drive with the · scatter with a) whirlwind

לַ/הֲפִיצֵ֑/נִיlahăpiyṣēniy

to scatter mepronH6327

shake) in pieces · cast · disperse · drive ···

עֲלִ֣יצֻתָ֔/םʿăliyṣutām

exultation theirnounH5951

כְּמוֹkəmwō

was likepronH3644

as (it were · well as) · in comparison of · like (as ···

לֶ/אֱכֹ֥לleʾĕkōl

to devourpronH398

at all · consume · devour(-er · up) ···

עָנִ֖יʿāniy

the afflictedadjH6041

humble · lowly · needy · poor

בַּ/מִּסְתָּֽרbamisətār

in the secret placepronH4565

place)

ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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