Hebrew Interlinear
Zephaniah 2:13 Interlinear
“And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness”
Word-by-Word Analysis
| # | Original | Strong's | English | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | וְיֵ֤ט | H5186 | And he will stretch out | to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows) |
| 2 | יָדוֹ֙ | H3027 | his hand | a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v |
| 3 | עַל | H5921 | above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | |
| 4 | צָפ֔וֹן | H6828 | against the north | properly, hidden, i.e., dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown) |
| 5 | וִֽיאַבֵּ֖ד | H6 | and destroy | properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy) |
| 6 | אֶת | H853 | properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely) | |
| 7 | אַשּׁ֑וּר | H804 | Assyria | ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire |
| 8 | וְיָשֵׂ֤ם | H7760 | and will make | to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) |
| 9 | אֶת | H853 | properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely) | |
| 10 | נִֽינְוֵה֙ | H5210 | Nineveh | nineveh, the capital of assyria |
| 11 | לִשְׁמָמָ֔ה | H8077 | a desolation | devastation; figuratively, astonishment |
| 12 | צִיָּ֖ה | H6723 | and dry | aridity; concretely, a desert |
| 13 | כַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ | H4057 | like a wilderness | a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert |
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