Nahumchapter 2
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Original Language
Nahum 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Nahum 2. 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
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 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.
The shatterer comes up; chariots rage in the streets1
Nahum 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Nahum 2:1
pay your vows —that you vowed to the Holy One, blessed be He, if He would save you from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria - for now you are saved.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Nahum 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The river gates opened; Nineveh emptied and void6
Nahum 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Where is the lions' den now?11
Nahum 2:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Nahum 2:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Nahum 2:12
Where is the lions’ den? —This is a lamentation over Nineveh, which was the dwellings of kings, hard and strong as lions.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Nahum 2:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Nahum 2:13
The grown lion tore enough for his whelps —As Jonathan renders it: The kings would bring much plunder, until there was enough for the members of their households.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg