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Habakkuk 3

Hab. 3:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He stood
`amad (Hebrew #5975)
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Pronounce: aw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
, and measured
muwd (Hebrew #4128)
to shake
KJV usage: measure.
Pronounce: mood
Origin: a primitive root
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
: he beheld
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
, and drove asunder
nathar (Hebrew #5425)
to jump, i.e. be violently agitated; causatively, to terrify, shake off, untie
KJV usage: drive asunder, leap, (let) loose, X make, move, undo.
Pronounce: naw-thar'
Origin: a primitive root
the nations
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
; and the everlasting
`ad (Hebrew #5703)
properly, a (peremptory) terminus, i.e. (by implication) duration, in the sense of advance or perpetuity (substantially as a noun, either with or without a preposition)
KJV usage: eternity, ever(- lasting, -more), old, perpetually, + world without end.
Pronounce: ad
Origin: from 5710
mountains
harar (Hebrew #2042)
a mountain
KJV usage: hill, mount(-ain).
Pronounce: haw-rawr'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to loom up
were scattered
puwts (Hebrew #6327)
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
KJV usage: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Pronounce: poots
Origin: a primitive root
, the perpetual
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
hills
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
did bow
shachach (Hebrew #7817)
to sink or depress (reflexive or causative)
KJV usage: bend, bow (down), bring (cast) down, couch, humble self, be (bring) low, stoop.
Pronounce: shaw-khakh'
Origin: a primitive root
: his ways
haliykah (Hebrew #1979)
a walking; by implication, a procession or march, a caravan
KJV usage: company, going, walk, way.
Pronounce: hal-ee-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 1978
a are everlasting
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
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Mic. 5:2• 2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel: his goings forth have been of old from everlasting. (Mic. 5:2)

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Cross References

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Ex. 15:17• 17Thou shalt bring them in,{HR}And plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance,{HR}In the place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for Thee to dwell in,{HR}In the sanctuary, O Jehovah, which thy hands have established. (Ex. 15:17)
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Ex. 21:31• 31{i}Whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him.{/i} (Ex. 21:31)
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Num. 34:1‑29• 1{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
 2{i}Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof.{/i}
 3{i}Then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward;{/i}
 4{i}and your border shall turn from the south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin, and shall end southward at Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-Addar, and pass on to Azmon.{/i}
 5{i}And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the sea.{/i}
 6{i}And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and its coast. This shall be your west border.{/i}
 7{i}And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;{/i}
 8{i}from mount Hor ye shall mark out the entrance to Hamath, and the end of the border shall be toward Zedad;{/i}
 9{i}and the border shall go to Ziphron, and shall end at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.{/i}
 10{i}And ye shall mark out for you as eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:{/i}
 11{i}and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall strike upon the extremity of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;{/i}
 12{i}and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and shall end at the salt sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.{/i}
 13{i}And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall take for yourselves as inheritance by lot, which Jehovah commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.{/i}
 14{i}For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of the Gadites according to their fathers' houses, have received, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance;{/i}
 15{i}the two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side the Jordan of Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.{/i}
 16{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
 17{i}These are the names of the men who shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.{/i}
 18{i}And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land.{/i}
 19{i}And these are the names of the men: for the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;{/i}
 20{i}and for the tribe of the children of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud;{/i}
 21{i}for the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;{/i}
 22{i}and for the tribe of the children of Dan, a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli;{/i}
 23{i}for the children of Joseph: for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod,{/i}
 24{i}and for the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan;{/i}
 25{i}and for the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a prince, Elizaphan the son of Pharnach;{/i}
 26{i}and for the tribe of the children of Issachar, a prince, Phaltiel the son of Azzan;{/i}
 27{i}and for the tribe of the children of Asher, a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;{/i}
 28{i}and for the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a prince, Phedahel the son of Ammihud.{/i}
 29{i}These are they whom Jehovah commanded to distribute to the children of Israel their inheritance in the land of Canaan{/i}. (Num. 34:1‑29)
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Deut. 32:8• 8When the Most High (Elion) divided to the nations their inheritance,{HR}When he separated the sons of Adam,{HR}He set the bounds of the people{HR}According to the number of the children of Israel. (Deut. 32:8)
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Acts 17:26• 26And he made of one [blood] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation, (Acts 17:26)
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Josh. 10:42• 42And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Jehovah God of Israel fought for Israel. (Josh. 10:42)
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Josh. 11:18‑23• 18Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
 19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
 20For it was of Jehovah to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
 21And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
 22There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
 23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war. (Josh. 11:18‑23)
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Neh. 9:22‑24• 22{i}And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.{/i}
 23{i}And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.{/i}
 24{i}And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.{/i} (Neh. 9:22‑24)
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Psa. 135:8‑12• 8Who smote Egypt's firstborn from man to beast;
 9Who sent signs and wonders into thy midst,{HR}O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants;
 10Who smote many nations and slew strong kings.
 11(To) Sihon king of the Amorites,{HR}And (to) Og king of (the) Bashan,{HR}And (to) all the kingdom of Canaan;
 12And gave their land an inheritance,{HR}An inheritance to Israel his people. (Psa. 135:8‑12)
the everlasting.
Hab. 3:10• 10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: (Hab. 3:10)
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Gen. 49:26• 26The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my progenitors unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. (Gen. 49:26)
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Deut. 33:15• 15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains,{HR}And for the precious things of the lasting hills, (Deut. 33:15)
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Judg. 5:5• 5{i}The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah,{HR}That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel.{/i} (Judg. 5:5)
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Psa. 68:16• 16Why, mounts of peaks, look ye with envy{HR}On the mount God desired for his dwelling;{HR}Yea, Jehovah will dwell [there] forever. (Psa. 68:16)
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Psa. 114:4‑7• 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. 114:4‑7)
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Isa. 64:1‑3• 1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down—that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
 2as fire kindleth brushwood, [as] fire causeth the waters to boil—to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!
 3When thou didst terrible things we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. (Isa. 64:1‑3)
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Nah. 1:5• 5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. (Nah. 1:5)
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Zech. 14:4‑5• 4And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
 5And ye shall flee to the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And Jehovah my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. (Zech. 14:4‑5)
his.
Psa. 90:2• 2Before mountains were brought forth,{HR}And thou gavest birth to earth and world,{HR}Even from eternity to eternity {i}thou{/i} [art] God . (Psa. 90:2)
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Psa. 103:17• 17But the mercy of Jehovah [is] from everlasting to everlasting upon those that fear him;{HR}And his righteousness [is] to sons of sons, (Psa. 103:17)
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Isa. 51:6,8• 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
 8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation unto all generations. (Isa. 51:6,8)
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Mic. 5:8• 8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. (Mic. 5:8)
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Matt. 24:35• 35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (Matt. 24:35)
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Luke 1:50• 50and his mercy is to generations and generations to them that fear him. (Luke 1:50)
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Heb. 13:8• 8Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and today, and unto the ages. (Heb. 13:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He stood, and measured the earthf; He beheld, and discomfited the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlastingg.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "made the earth to tremble."
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Or "His are the ways of old."

W. Kelly Translation

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He stood, and made the earth tremble: