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Micah 7

Mic. 7:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They shall lick
lachak (Hebrew #3897)
to lick
KJV usage: lick (up).
Pronounce: law-khak'
Origin: a primitive root
v the dust
`aphar (Hebrew #6083)
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Pronounce: aw-fawr'
Origin: from 6080
like a serpent
nachash (Hebrew #5175)
a snake (from its hiss)
KJV usage: serpent.
Pronounce: naw-khawsh'
Origin: from 5172
, they shall move
ragaz (Hebrew #7264)
to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)
KJV usage: be afraid, stand in awe, disquiet, fall out, fret, move, provoke, quake, rage, shake, tremble, trouble, be wroth.
Pronounce: raw-gaz'
Origin: a primitive root
out of their holes
micgereth (Hebrew #4526)
something enclosing, i.e. a margin (of a region, of a panel); concretely, a stronghold
KJV usage: border, close place, hole.
Pronounce: mis-gheh'-reth
Origin: from 5462
like χworms
zachal (Hebrew #2119)
to crawl; by implication, to fear
KJV usage: be afraid, serpent, worm.
Pronounce: zaw-khal'
Origin: a primitive root
of 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
: they shall be afraid
pachad (Hebrew #6342)
to be startled (by a sudden alarm); hence, to fear in general
KJV usage: be afraid, stand in awe, (be in) fear, make to shake.
Pronounce: paw-kkad'
Origin: a primitive root
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
our God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, and shall fear
yare' (Hebrew #3372)
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
KJV usage: affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), X see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).
Pronounce: yaw-ray'
Origin: a primitive root
because of thee.
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Psa. 72:9• 9They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. (Psa. 72:9)
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or, creeping things.

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Dust,
Earth,
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Worms

Cross References

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lick.
Gen. 3:14‑15• 14And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
 15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Gen. 3:14‑15)
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Psa. 72:9• 9They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. (Psa. 72:9)
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Isa. 49:23• 23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. (Isa. 49:23)
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Isa. 60:14• 14The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 60:14)
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Isa. 65:25• 25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. (Isa. 65:25)
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Lam. 3:29• 29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. (Lam. 3:29)
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Rev. 3:9• 9Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Rev. 3:9)
move.
1 Sam. 14:11• 11And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. (1 Sam. 14:11)
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Psa. 18:45• 45The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. (Psa. 18:45)
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Jer. 16:16• 16Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. (Jer. 16:16)
worms.
or, creeping things.
they shall be.
Ex. 15:14‑16• 14The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
 15Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
 16Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased. (Ex. 15:14‑16)
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Josh. 2:9‑11• 9And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
 10For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. (Josh. 2:9‑11)
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Josh. 9:24• 24And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. (Josh. 9:24)
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Psa. 9:20• 20Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. (Psa. 9:20)
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Isa. 2:19‑21• 19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
 20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
 21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. (Isa. 2:19‑21)
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Isa. 64:2• 2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! (Isa. 64:2)
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Jer. 33:9• 9And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. (Jer. 33:9)
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Zech. 14:5• 5And ye shall flee to the valley of the 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 the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. (Zech. 14:5)
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Rev. 6:15‑17• 15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
 17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Rev. 6:15‑17)
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Rev. 18:9‑10• 9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
 10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. (Rev. 18:9‑10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They shall lick dust like the serpent; like crawling things of the earth, they shall come trembling forth from their closee places. They shall turn with fear to Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "fortified."