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Habakkuk 3

Hab. 3:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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God
'elowahh (Hebrew #433)
a deity or the Deity
KJV usage: God, god. See 430.
Pronounce: el-o'-ah;
Origin: probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410
came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
from λTeman
Teyman (Hebrew #8487)
the same as 8486; Teman, the name of two Edomites, and of the region and descendant of one of them
KJV usage: south, Teman.
Pronounce: tay-mawn'
Origin: or Teman {tay-mawn'}
, and the Holy One
qadowsh (Hebrew #6918)
from 6942; sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
KJV usage: holy (One), saint.
Pronounce: kaw-doshe'
Origin: or qadosh {kaw-doshe'}
from mount
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
Paran
Pa'ran (Hebrew #6290)
ornamental; Paran, a desert of Arabia
KJV usage: Paran.
Pronounce: paw-rawn'
Origin: from 6286
. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
. His glory
howd (Hebrew #1935)
grandeur (i.e. an imposing form and appearance)
KJV usage: beauty, comeliness, excellency, glorious, glory, goodly, honour, majesty.
Pronounce: hode
Origin: from an unused root
covered
kacah (Hebrew #3680)
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
KJV usage: clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare 3780.
Pronounce: kaw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
the heavens
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
, and the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
was full
male' (Hebrew #4390)
a primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-)flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-)full, + have wholly.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: or malae (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}
of his praise
thillah (Hebrew #8416)
laudation; specifically (concretely) a hymn
KJV usage: praise.
Pronounce: teh-hil-law'
Origin: from 1984
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λ
the south.

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Earth,
Glory,
God,
Heaven,
Mountain Mount,
Paran,
Selah,
Teman; Temani; Temanites

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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came.
Judg. 5:4‑5• 4{i}Jehovah, when thou wentest forth from Seir,{HR}When thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom,{HR}The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped,{HR}Yea, the clouds dropped water.{HR}{/i}
 5{i}The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah,{HR}That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel.{/i} (Judg. 5:4‑5)
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Psa. 68:7‑8• 7O God, in thy going out before thy people,{HR}In thy marching in the wilderness (Selah)
 8The earth trembled, yea the heavens dropped from before God,{HR}This Sinai from before God, the God of Israel. (Psa. 68:7‑8)
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Isa. 64:3• 3When thou didst terrible things we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. (Isa. 64:3)
from.
Gen. 36:11• 11And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. (Gen. 36:11)
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Jer. 49:7• 7Concerning Edom, thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? (Jer. 49:7)
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Amos 1:12• 12but I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. (Amos 1:12)
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Obad. 9• 9And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. (Obad. 9)
Teman.
or, the south.
Paran.
Gen. 21:21• 21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. (Gen. 21:21)
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Num. 10:12• 12{i}And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stood still in the wilderness of Paran.{/i} (Num. 10:12)
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Deut. 33:2• 2{i}And he said,{/i} (Deut. 33:2)
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1 Sam. 25:1• 1{i}And Samuel died; and all Israel were gathered together, and lamented him; and they buried him in his house at Ramah.{/i} (1 Sam. 25:1)
Selah.
Psa. 3:2,4• 2Many are saying concerning my soul,{HR}"There is no deliverance for him in God." Selah.
 4I cry [with] my voice unto Jehovah,{HR}And he answereth me from the mountain of his holiness. Selah. (Psa. 3:2,4)
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Psa. 4:4• 4Tremble and sin not;{HR}Commune in your heart upon your bed and be still. Selah. (Psa. 4:4)
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Psa. 9:16,20• 16Jehovah is become known;{HR}He hath executed judgment:{HR}In the work of his own hands the wicked [man] is ensnared.{HR}Higgayon. Selah.
 20Put thou fear into them, O Jehovah;{HR}The Gentiles shall know that they are but men. Selah. (Psa. 9:16,20)
His glory.
Ex. 19:16‑20• 16{i}And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet exceeding loud; and the whole people that was in the camp trembled.{/i}
 17{i}And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the foot of the mountain.{/i}
 18{i}And the whole of mount Sinai smoked, because Jehovah descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly.{/i}
 19{i}And the sound of the trumpet increased and became exceeding loud; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.{/i}
 20{i}And Jehovah came down on mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain; and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.{/i} (Ex. 19:16‑20)
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Ex. 20:18• 18{i}And all the people saw the thunderings, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off,{/i} (Ex. 20:18)
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Ex. 24:15‑17• 15{i}And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.{/i}
 16{i}And the glory of Jehovah abode on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.{/i}
 17{i}And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.{/i} (Ex. 24:15‑17)
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Deut. 5:24• 24{i}and ye said, Behold, Jehovah our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God talks with man, and he lives.{/i} (Deut. 5:24)
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Psa. 68:17• 17God's chariots [are] two myriads, thousands upon thousands:{HR}Adonai is among them, Sinai in holiness . (Psa. 68:17)
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Psa. 114:3‑7• 3The sea saw and fled,{HR}The Jordan turned back,
 4The mountains skipped like rams,{HR}The hills like lambs.
 5What ailed ([was] to) thee, thou (the) sea, that thou didst flee?{HR}Thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
 6Ye mountains, skipped ye like rams?{HR}Ye hills like lambs?
 7At the presence of the Lord tremble, O earth,{HR}At the presence of the God of Jacob, (Psa. 114:3‑7)
and the earth.
Isa. 6:3• 3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory. (Isa. 6:3)
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2 Cor. 3:7‑11• 7(But if the ministry of death in letter, graven on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently toward the face of Moses for the glory of his face, that was to be done away,
 8how shall not the ministry of the Spirit rather be in glory?
 9For if the ministry of condemnation [have] glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.
 10For even that which hath been glorified hath not been glorified in this respect on account of the surpassing glory.
 11For if that to be done away [was] with glory, much more what abideth [is] in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7‑11)
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Rev. 5:13‑14• 13And every creature which is in the heaven and on the earth and under the earth and [such as are] on the sea and all things in them heard I saying, To him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb {i}be{/i} the blessing and the honour and the glory and the might unto the ages of the ages.
 14And the four living creatures said, Amen: and the elders fell down and worshipped. (Rev. 5:13‑14)
• He refers to Teman and Paran where there had been the most striking manifestations of divine power and glory, as we know from Deuteronomy 33:2. (“Habakkuk” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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+God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is fulld of his praise.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "was full."

W. Kelly Translation

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God came from Teman,