Nahum 3:17New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Thy mercenary crowds, are like the swarming locust, and, thy mixed multitudes, like locusts—swarms of locusts,—which settle in the hedges on a cold day, the sun, hath broken forth, and they are in flight, and unknown is the place where they are!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Thy crowned ones [are] as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they were.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Thy princes are as the grashoppers, and thy captaines as the great grashoppers which remaine in the hedges in the colde day: but when the sunne ariseth, they flee away and their place is not knowen where they are.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day: [but] when the Sunne ariseth, they flee away, and their place is not knowen where they [are].
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Your Nazarites are as the locusts, and your warriors as the swarms of locusts which settle on the hedges on a cold day, but when the sun arises they fly off, and it is not known where they are.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Thy mixed [multitude] has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are]. |
Thy crowned
4502 {4502} Primeמִנְזָרminn@zar{min-ez-awr'}
From H5144; a prince.
[ are] as the locusts,
697 {0697} Primeאַרְבֶּה'arbeh{ar-beh'}
From H7235; a locust (from its rapid increase).
and thy captains
2951 {2951} Primeטִפְסָרtiphcar{tif-sar'}
Of foreign derivation; a military governor.
as the great grasshoppers,
1462 {1462} Primeגּוֹבgowb{gobe}
From H1461; the locust (from its grubbing as a larve).
which camp
2583 {2583} Primeחָנָהchanah{khaw-naw'}
A primitive root (compare H2603); properly to incline; by implication to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or siege).
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
in the hedges
1448 {1448} Primeגְּדֵרָהg@derah{ghed-ay-raw'}
Feminine of H1447; inclosure (especially for flocks).
in the cold
7135 {7135} Primeקָרָהqarah{kaw-raw'}
Feminine of H7119; coolness.
day,
3117 {3117} Primeיוֹםyowm{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
[ but] when the sun
8121 {8121} Primeשֶׁמֶשׁshemesh{sheh'-mesh}
From an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication the east; figuratively a ray, that is, (architecturally) a notched battlement.
ariseth
2224 {2224} Primeזָרַחzarach{zaw-rakh'}
A primitive root; properly to irradiate (or shoot forth beams), that is, to rise (as the sun); specifically to appear (as a symptom of leprosy).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
they flee away,
5074 {5074} Primeנָדַדnadad{naw-dad'}
A primitive root; properly to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away.
z8776 <8776> Grammar
Stem - Poal (See H8843) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 8
and their place
4725 {4725} Primeמָקוֹםmaqowm{maw-kome'}
From H6965; properly a standing, that is, a spot; but used widely of a locality (generally or specifically); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind).
is not known
3045 {3045} Primeידעyada`{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8738 <8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 1429
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
where
335 {0335} Primeאֵי'ay{ah'ee}
Perhaps from H0370; where? hence how?.
they [ are]. |
Nahum 3:17
_ _ Thy crowned — Thy princes (Revelation 9:7). The king’s nobles and officers wore the tiara, as well as the king; hence they are called here “thy crowned ones.”
_ _ as the locusts — as many as the swarming locusts.
_ _ thy captains — Tiphsar, an Assyrian word; found also in Jeremiah 51:27, meaning satraps [Michaelis]; or rather, “military leaders” [Maurer]. The last syllable, sar means a “prince,” and is found in Belshaz-zar, Nabopolas-sar, Nebuchadnez-zar.
_ _ as the great grasshoppers — literally, “as the locust of locusts,” that is, the largest locust. Maurer translates, “as many as locusts upon locusts,” that is, swarms of locusts. Hebrew idiom favors English Version.
_ _ in the hedges in the cold — Cold deprives the locust of the power of flight; so they alight in cold weather and at night, but when warmed by the sun soon “flee away.” So shall the Assyrian multitudes suddenly disappear, not leaving a trace behind (compare Pliny, Natural History, 11.29). |
Nahum 3:17
Thy crowned — Thy confederate kings and princes. Captains — Commanders and officers are for number, like locusts and grasshoppers; but 'tis all for shew, not for help. In the cool day — While the season suits them. The sun — When trouble, war, and danger, like the parching sun, scald them. Is not known — Thou shalt never know where to find them. |
Revelation 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts [ were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [ were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [ were] as the faces of men.
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