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Your shepherdsרֹעֶיךָslumber,נָמוּkingמֶלֶךְof Assyria;אַשּׁוּרyour noblesאַדִּירֶיךָrest;יִשְׁכְּנוּyour peopleעַמְּךָare scatteredנָפֹשׁוּonעַלthe mountains,הֶהָרִיםand there is no oneוְאֵיןto assemble them.מְקַבֵּץ
Nahum 3:18
Study it in the app“Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria; your nobles rest; your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to assemble them.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Nahum 3:18, word by word
- Your shepherdsרֹעֶיroe
shepherd
One who looks after sheep; or one who leads a people, like YHWH.
Where else “roe” appears- slumberנָמוּnamu
slumber
To slumber, to doze off from weariness.
Where else “namu” appears- kingמֶלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- of Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- your noblesאַדִּירֶיadire
noble
The important men of a people, those of highest rank.
Where else “adire” appears- restיִשְׁכְּנוּyishknu
dwell
To live somewhere, stay.
Where else “yishknu” appears- your peopleעַמְּam
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appears- are scatteredנָפֹשׁוּnafoshu
be scattered
To be scattered everywhere, with no one to gather them.
Where else “nafoshu” appears- the mountainsהָרִיםharim
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “harim” appears- to assemble themמְקַבֵּץmekabets
gather
To bring people to one place, or to come together there.
Where else “mekabets” appears
Places in this verse
Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
The context
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?
18 · This verse (above)
19There is no relief for your fracture; grievous is your wound. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for upon whom has not passed your evil continually?