Nahumchapter 1
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Original Language
Nahum 1— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Nahum 1. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
A jealous God, slow to anger, whose way is in the whirlwind1
Nahum 1:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Nahum 1:1
The harsh prophecy concerning Nineveh Heb. מַשָׂא. The burden of the cup of the curse [which was] to be given Nineveh to drink.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Nahum 1:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A stronghold in trouble, and an utter end for his enemies7
Nahum 1:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Nahum 1:10
For, while the thorns are entangled —I.e., their destruction will come upon them suddenly, and they will not descend from their honor gradually, but while the thorns and the briers are [yet] entangled; i.e., strongly rooted.
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Nahum 1:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
On the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news12
Nahum 1:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 1:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Nahum 1:13
And now I will break off his yoke from you —The Shechinah says this to the prophet, who is of Israel: I will break off the yoke of Assyria from you and from My people.
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Nahum 1:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Nahum 1:14
And the Lord shall command concerning you —Now the king of Assyria is being addressed.
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Nahum 1:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible