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“You too,גַּם אַתֶּםCushites,כּוּשִׁיםtheyהֵמָּהwill be piercedחַלְלֵיby my sword.”חַרְבִּי
Zephaniah 2:12
Study it in the app““You too, Cushites, they will be pierced by my sword.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Zephaniah 2:12, word by word
- Cushitesכּוּשִׁיםkushim
Cushite
Cushite: a person from Cush, the region south of Egypt (toward present-day Sudan). Joab's messenger is called this (2 Samuel 18), and so is Ebed-melech, who pulled Jeremiah out of the cistern (Jeremiah 38). In the plural, the Cushites as a people. It says nothing good or bad about the person, only where they come from.
Where else “kushim” appears- will be piercedחַלְלֵיchalle
slain
Someone killed or wounded in war.
Where else “challe” appears- by my swordחַרְבִּcharbi
sword
A sword; or war.
Where else “charbi” appears
The context
11Fearsome will be YHWH against them, for he will make lean all the gods of the earth; and they will bow down to him, each from his place, all the coastlands of the nations.
12 · This verse (above)
13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, dry as the wilderness.