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Nahum 1

Nah. 1:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The mountains
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
c quake
ra`ash (Hebrew #7493)
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), partic. through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
KJV usage: make afraid, (re-)move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble.
Pronounce: raw-ash
Origin: a primitive root
at him, and the hills
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
melt
muwg (Hebrew #4127)
to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
KJV usage: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft.
Pronounce: moog
Origin: a primitive root
, 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
is burned
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
at his presence
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
, yea, the world
tebel (Hebrew #8398)
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a partic. land, as Babylonia, Palestine
KJV usage: habitable part, world.
Pronounce: tay-bale'
Origin: from 2986
, and all that dwell
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
therein.
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Psa. 68:8• 8The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel. (Psa. 68:8)

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Earth,
Mountain Mount,
The World

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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mountains.
2 Sam. 22:8• 8Then the earth shook, and quaked; The foundations of the heavens trembled And shook because he was wroth. (2 Sam. 22:8)
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Psa. 29:5‑6• 5The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon:
 6And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo. (Psa. 29:5‑6)
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Psa. 68:8• 8The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel. (Psa. 68:8)
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Psa. 97:4‑5• 4His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
 5The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. (Psa. 97:4‑5)
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Psa. 114:4,6• 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
 6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs? (Psa. 114:4,6)
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Isa. 2:12‑14• 12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;
 13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;
 14and upon all the lofty mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up; (Isa. 2:12‑14)
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Jer. 4:24• 24I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently. (Jer. 4:24)
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Hab. 3:10• 10The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its hands on high. (Hab. 3:10)
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Matt. 27:51• 51And lo, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were rent, (Matt. 27:51)
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Matt. 28:2• 2And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending out of heaven, came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it. (Matt. 28:2)
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Rev. 20:11• 11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled, and place was not found for them. (Rev. 20:11)
the hills.
Judg. 5:5• 5The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel. (Judg. 5:5)
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Psa. 46:6• 6The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted. (Psa. 46:6)
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Psa. 97:5• 5The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. (Psa. 97:5)
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Isa. 64:1‑2• 1Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,--that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
 2--as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence! (Isa. 64:1‑2)
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Mic. 1:4• 4And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place. (Mic. 1:4)
the earth.
2 Peter 3:7‑12• 7But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
 8But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
 9The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
 10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
 11All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,
 12waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt? (2 Peter 3:7‑12)
• The word “mountains” being used to indicate the great seats of power on earth. (“Nahum 1” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.