Study it in the app“And I will appoint over them four kinds, declares YHWH: the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the heavens and the animals of the earth to devour and to destroy.”
And I will appointוּפָקַדְתִּיover themעֲלֵיהֶםfourאַרְבַּעkinds,מִשְׁפָּחוֹתdeclaresנְאֻםYHWH:יְהוָהthe swordאֶת הַחֶרֶבto kill,לַהֲרֹגand the dogsוְאֶת הַכְּלָבִיםto drag away,לִסְחֹבand the birdsוְאֶת עוֹףof the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִםand the animalsוְאֶת בֶּהֱמַתof the earthהָאָרֶץto devourלֶאֱכֹלand to destroy.וּלְהַשְׁחִית
appoint
To put someone in charge.
Where else “fakadti” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arba” appearskind
Each separate kind of creature or of calamity.
Where else “mishpachot” appearsdeclaration
Solemn words God himself speaks: "oracle of YHWH".
Where else “neum” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssword
A sword; or war.
Where else “cherev” appearskill
Kill, slay.
Where else “harog” appearsdog
An animal that roams the city and eats what it finds, even carrion.
Where else “kelavim” appearsdrag
Drag something along the ground, pull it. It is said of a city dragged with ropes (2 Samuel 17:13), of a corpse, or of animals dragged away.
Where else “sechov” appearsbird
The animals with wings and feathers that fly through the sky: doves, eagles, ravens.
Where else “of” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsbeast
Animals in general.
Where else “behemat” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearsdevour
Literally "eat": to destroy something, as fire burns everything up.
Where else “echol” appearsdestroy
To ruin something completely, until it no longer exists or no longer serves.
Where else “hashchit” appears2And it will be, when they say to you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ that you will say to them: Thus says YHWH: ‘Those who are for death, to death; and those who are for the sword, to the sword; and those who are for famine, to famine; and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
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4And I will make them an object of dread to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
