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Habakkuk 3:11

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

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ASV

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.

KJV

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שֶׁ֥מֶשׁShe.meshsunH8121 →
יָרֵ֖חַya.Re.achmoonH3394 →
עָ֣מַד'A.madit has stood stillH5975 →
זְבֻ֑לָהze.Vu.laha lofty abode <towards>H2073 →
לְא֤וֹרle.'orto lightH216 →
חִצֶּ֙יךָ֙chi.Tzei.khaarrows yourH2671 →
יְהַלֵּ֔כוּye.ha.Le.khuthey goH1980 →
לְנֹ֖גַהּle.No.gahto brightnessH5051 →
בְּרַ֥קbe.Rak[the] lightning flash ofH1300 →
חֲנִיתֶֽךָ׃cha.ni.Te.khaspear yourH2595 →

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Joshua 10:12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”Joshua 10:13So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”Psalms 144:5–6Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.Genesis 1:16God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.Nahum 3:3Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—Psalms 18:12–14From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.Joshua 10:11–13As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.Zechariah 9:14Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.Psalms 18:14He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.2 Samuel 22:15He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.Psalms 7:13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.Psalms 19:4their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.Psalms 77:17–18The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.Isaiah 28:21For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.Isaiah 38:8I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.Ecclesiastes 1:5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.Acts 12:7Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.Ezekiel 21:10it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.

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