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Nahumchapter 3

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Nahum 3— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Nahum 3. 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.

Woe to the bloody city, full of lies and plunder1

Nahum 3:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

ה֖וֹיhowoe to!H1945עִ֣ירʾir[the] city ofH5892דָּמִ֑יםdamimblood<s>H1818כֻּלָּ֗הּkulahall of itH3605כַּ֤חַשׁkachashlyingH3585פֶּ֙רֶק֙perekplunderH6563מְלֵאָ֔הmeleah[is] fullH4392לֹ֥אlo'notH3808יָמִ֖ישׁyamishit will departH4185טָֽרֶף׃tarefpreyH2964

Rashi on Nahum 3:1

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
robbery Heb. פֶּרֶק, robbery, that one breaks it away from the hand of its owner.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

Nahum 3:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

כָּ֨ל־kal-allH3605מִבְצָרַ֔יִךְmivtzarayikhfortifications yourH4013תְּאֵנִ֖יםteenim[are] fig treesH8384עִם־ʾim-withH5973בִּכּוּרִ֑יםbikurimfirst-fruitsH1061אִם־ʾim-ifH518יִנּ֕וֹעוּyinouthey will be shakenH5128וְנָפְל֖וּvenafeluand they will fallH5307עַל־ʾal-onH5921פִּ֥יpi[the] mouth ofH6310אוֹכֵֽל׃ʾokhelan eaterH398

Rashi on Nahum 3:12

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
All your fortresses —It shall be easy to conquer all your fortified cities and to ravage all that is in their midst, like the fig trees when they are with their first ripe fruits; when the tree is shaken, the first ripe fruits fall into the mouth of the eaters.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

Draw water for the siege — all who hear clap their hands14

Nahum 3:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

מֵ֤יmeiwater ofH4325מָצוֹר֙matzorsiegeH4692שַֽׁאֲבִי־shaavi-drawH7579לָ֔ךְlakhfor yourselfחַזְּקִ֖יchazekistrengthenH2388מִבְצָרָ֑יִךְmivtzarayikhfortifications yourH4013בֹּ֧אִיboigoH935בַטִּ֛יטvatitin the clayH2916וְרִמְסִ֥יverimsiand trampleH7429בַחֹ֖מֶרvachomeron the mortarH2563הַחֲזִ֥יקִיhachazikitake hold ofH2388מַלְבֵּֽן׃malbena brick moldH4404

Rashi on Nahum 3:14

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
Draw siege water for yourself —When a city is about to be besieged, the people of the city gather much water into its midst in barrels, [so that they will have water] to drink during the days of the siege, when there are no cisterns within it [the city].

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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