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Will notהֲלוֹאsuddenlyפֶתַעrise upיָקוּמוּthose who bite you,נֹשְׁכֶיךָand awakeוְיִקְצוּthose who shake you,מְזַעְזְעֶיךָand you will beוְהָיִיתָspoilלִמְשִׁסּוֹתfor them?לָמוֹ
Habakkuk 2:7
Study it in the app“Will not suddenly rise up those who bite you, and awake those who shake you, and you will be spoil for them?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Habakkuk 2:7, word by word
- suddenlyפֶתַעfeta
instant, suddenly
Instant, moment; used to say "suddenly."
Where else “feta” appears- rise upיָקוּמוּyakumu
arise
To come onto the scene, like a king or prophet.
Where else “yakumu” appears- those who bite youנֹשְׁכֶיnoshche
bite
To sink the teeth in, like a snake that strikes and poisons.
Where else “noshche” appears- and awakeיִקְצוּyiktsu
awake
To awake, to wake up from sleep.
Where else “yiktsu” appears- those who shake youמְזַעְזְעֶיmezaze
shake
To jolt violently.
Where else “mezaze” appears- and you will beהָיִיתָhayita
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayita” appears- spoilמְשִׁסּוֹתmeshisot
spoil, plunder
Spoil: what an enemy snatches when plundering, and also the people itself left exposed to plunder (2 Kings 21:14; Isaiah 42:22; Jeremiah 30:16).
Where else “meshisot” appears
Translation note
“Those who bite you”: in Hebrew it sounds like “your creditors”: the word for the interest on a loan comes from “bite.”
The context
6Will not all these take up against him a poem, and a figurative saying, riddles against him? And one will say, ‘Woe to the one who multiplies what is not his! How long? And to the one who loads upon himself pledges!’
7 · This verse (above)
8Because you have plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples will plunder you, for the blood of human beings and violence done to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it.