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You have multipliedהִרְבֵּיתyour tradersרֹכְלַיִךְmore than the starsמִכּוֹכְבֵיof the heavens;הַשָּׁמָיִםthe young locustיֶלֶקstrips offפָּשַׁטand flies away.וַיָּעֹף
Nahum 3:16
Study it in the app“You have multiplied your traders more than the stars of the heavens; the young locust strips off and flies away.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Nahum 3:16, word by word
- You have multipliedהִרְבֵּיתhirbet
increase
To make an amount larger, adding and adding.
Where else “hirbet” appears- your tradersרֹכְלַיִrochlayi
go about trading
Go from place to place selling; as a participle, trader, traveling merchant.
Where else “rochlayi” appears- more than the starsכּוֹכְבֵיkochve
star
Star.
Where else “kochve” appears- of the heavensשָּׁמָיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears- the young locustיֶלֶקyelek
young locust
A young locust, at the stage when it does not yet fly and devours everything green. The name comes from the idea of "licking" or "devouring".
Where else “yelek” appears- strips offפָּשַׁטpashat
strip
To take off clothes, or strip another.
Where else “pashat” appears- and flies awayיָּעֹףyaof
fly
To move through the air with wings, like birds and seraphim.
Where else “yaof” appears
The context
15There fire will devour you, the sword will cut you off; it will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourself like the young locust, multiply yourself like the locust.
16 · This verse (above)
17Your guards are like the locust, and your officials like a swarm of grasshoppers that camp in the walls on a day of cold; the sun rises, and they flee, and their place is not known; where are they?