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Woeהוֹיto the one who buildsבֹּנֶהa cityעִירwith bloodבְּדָמִיםand establishesוְכוֹנֵןa townקִרְיָהwith injustice!בְּעַוְלָה
Habakkuk 2:12
Study it in the app“Woe to the one who builds a city with blood and establishes a town with injustice!”
With the Hebrew beneath
Habakkuk 2:12, word by word
- Woeהוֹיhoy
woe
A cry of grief for the dead or a warning of disaster.
Where else “hoy” appears- to the one who buildsבֹּנֶהbone
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “bone” appears- a cityעִירir
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appears- with bloodדָמִיםdamim
bloodguilt
A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.
Where else “damim” appears- and establishesכוֹנֵןchonen
establish
To make something firm, establish it.
Where else “chonen” appears- a townקִרְיָהkirya
town, city
Town: a poetic way of saying "city."
Where else “kirya” appears- with injusticeעַוְלָהavla
injustice, wrong
Injustice; what is crooked, what is not right.
Where else “avla” appears
The context
11For the stone from the wall will cry out, and the beam from the woodwork will answer it.
12 · This verse (above)
13Is it not, look, from YHWH Tsevaot that peoples labor for the fire, and nations grow weary for nothing?