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Nahum 3:14

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

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ASV

Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

KJV

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מֵ֤יmeiwater ofH4325 →
מָצוֹר֙ma.tzOrsiegeH4692 →
שַֽׁאֲבִי־sha.'a.vi-drawH7579 →
לָ֔ךְLakhfor yourself
חַזְּקִ֖יcha.ze.KistrengthenH2388 →
מִבְצָרָ֑יִךְmiv.tza.Ra.yikhfortifications yourH4013 →
בֹּ֧אִיBo.'igoH935 →
בַטִּ֛יטva.Titin the clayH2916 →
וְרִמְסִ֥יve.rim.Siand trampleH7429 →
בַחֹ֖מֶרva.Cho.meron the mortarH2563 →
הַחֲזִ֥יקִיha.cha.Zi.kitake hold ofH2388 →
מַלְבֵּֽן׃mal.Bena brick moldH4404 →

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2 Chronicles 32:3–4he consulted with his leaders and commanders about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.Nahum 2:1One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!Jeremiah 46:3–4“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!Genesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.Jeremiah 46:3“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!Isaiah 8:9Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!Jeremiah 46:9Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.2 Chronicles 32:11Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’Isaiah 22:9–11You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.Isaiah 37:25I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”Joel 3:9–11Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!Exodus 1:14and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.Jeremiah 43:9“In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes.

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