What Does Nahum 3:10 Mean?

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“Yet was she carried away”

exile; concretely and collectively exiles

“she went”

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

“into captivity”

exiled; captured; as noun, exile (abstractly or concretely and collectively); by extension, booty

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“her young children”

a suckling

“also were dashed in pieces”

to dash down

“at the top”

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“of all the streets”

properly, separate by a wall, i.e., outside, outdoors

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“for her honourable men”

to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same

“and they cast”

properly, to handle, i.e., to throw, e.g., lots

“lots”

properly, a pebble, i.e., a lot (small stones being used for that purpose); figuratively, a portion or destiny (as if determined by lot)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“and all her great men”

great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent

“were bound”

to fasten

“in chains”

properly, what leaps forth, i.e., flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bond