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Habakkuk 3

Hab. 3:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Although the fig tree
t'en (Hebrew #8384)
perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig (tree or fruit)
KJV usage: fig (tree).
Pronounce: teh-ane'
Origin: or (in the singular, feminine) t:enah {teh-ay- naw'}
shall not blossom
parach (Hebrew #6524)
to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom; generally, to spread; specifically, to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively, to flourish
KJV usage: X abroad, X abundantly, blossom, break forth (out), bud, flourish, make fly, grow, spread, spring (up).
Pronounce: paw-rakh'
Origin: a primitive root
, neither shall fruit
ybuwl (Hebrew #2981)
produce, i.e. a crop or (figuratively) wealth
KJV usage: fruit, increase.
Pronounce: yeb-ool'
Origin: from 2986
be in the vines
gephen (Hebrew #1612)
a vine (as twining), especially the grape
KJV usage: vine, tree.
Pronounce: gheh'-fen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to bend
; the labor
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
of the olive
zayith (Hebrew #2132)
an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry
KJV usage: olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.
Pronounce: zay'-yith
Origin: probably from an unused root (akin to 2099)
shall κfail
kachash (Hebrew #3584)
to be untrue, in word (to lie, feign, disown) or deed (to disappoint, fail, cringe)
KJV usage: deceive, deny, dissemble, fail, deal falsely, be found liars, (be-)lie, lying, submit selves.
Pronounce: kaw-khash'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the fields
shdemah (Hebrew #7709)
apparently from 7704; a cultivated field; -- blasted, field.
Pronounce: shed-ay-maw'
shall yield
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
no meat
'okel (Hebrew #400)
food
KJV usage: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
Pronounce: o'-kel
Origin: from 398
; the flock
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
shall be cut off
gazar (Hebrew #1504)
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
KJV usage: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
Pronounce: gaw-zar'
Origin: a primitive root
from the fold
mikla'ah (Hebrew #4356)
from 3607; a pen (for flocks)
KJV usage: ((sheep-))fold. Compare 4357.
Pronounce: mik-law-aw'
Origin: or miklah {mik-law'}
, and there shall be no herd
baqar (Hebrew #1241)
beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
KJV usage: beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Pronounce: baw-kawr'
Origin: from 1239
in the stalls
repheth (Hebrew #7517)
a stall for cattle (from their resting there)
KJV usage: stall.
Pronounce: reh'-feth
Origin: probably from 7503
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lie.

More on:

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Fig; Fig-Tree,
Flock,
Herd; Herdman,
Meat,
Olive, Olive Tree,
Vine; Vineyard

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the fig-tree.
Deut. 28:15‑18,30‑41• 15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
 16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
 17{i}Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.{/i}
 18{i}Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.{/i}
 30{i}Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eat of it.{/i}
 31{i}Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face, and shall not return to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to recover them.{/i}
 32{i}Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand to help it.{/i}
 33{i}The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.{/i}
 34{i}And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.{/i}
 35{i}Jehovah will smite thee in the knees and in the legs with evil ulcers, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.{/i}
 36{i}Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.{/i}
 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither Jehovah shall lead thee.
 38{i}Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.{/i}
 39{i}Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather the fruit; for the worms shall eat it.{/i}
 40{i}Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit.{/i}
 41{i}Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them to be with thee; for they shall go into captivity.{/i} (Deut. 28:15‑18,30‑41)
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Jer. 14:2‑8• 2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
 3{i}And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.{/i}
 4{i}Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the plowmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.{/i}
 5{i}For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh its young, because there is no grass.{/i}
 6{i}And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.{/i}
 7Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
 8O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? (Jer. 14:2‑8)
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Joel 1:10‑13,16‑18• 10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
 11{i}Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.{/i}
 12{i}The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.{/i}
 13{i}Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.{/i}
 16{i}Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?{/i}
 17{i}The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.{/i}
 18{i}How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.{/i} (Joel 1:10‑13,16‑18)
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Amos 4:6‑10• 6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
 7And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
 8So two or three cities wandered into one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
 9I have smitten you with blasting mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
 10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:6‑10)
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Hag. 2:16‑17• 16since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
 17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. (Hag. 2:16‑17)
fail.
Heb. lie.
• {v.17-19}  the prophet meantime answers to the faith of which he had himself been the preacher by one of the finest expressions of that faith which the Old Testament contains. (“Habakkuk 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive-tree shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:

W. Kelly Translation

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Although the fig tree shall not blossom,