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Nahum 3

Nah. 3:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I will cast
shalak (Hebrew #7993)
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
Pronounce: shaw-lak
Origin: a primitive root
abominable filth
shiqquwts (Hebrew #8251)
from 8262; disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).
Pronounce: shik-koots'
Origin: or shiqquts {shik-koots'}
upon thee, and make thee vile
nabel (Hebrew #5034)
to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace
KJV usage: disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, X surely, make vile, wither.
Pronounce: naw-bale'
Origin: a primitive root
, and will set
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
thee as a gazingstock
ro'iy (Hebrew #7210)
sight, whether abstractly (vision) or concretely (a spectacle)
KJV usage: gazingstock, look to, (that) see(-th).
Pronounce: ro-ee'
Origin: from 7200
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Cross References

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I will cast.
make.
will set.
1 Kings 9:7‑8• 7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples;
8and this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
(1 Kings 9:7‑8)
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Isa. 14:16‑19• 16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, they shall consider thee, [saying,] [Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17[that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] let not loose his prisoners to their home?
18All kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19But thou art cast out from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain—those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under foot.
(Isa. 14:16‑19)
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Jer. 51:37• 37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. (Jer. 51:37)
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Zeph. 2:15• 15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. (Zeph. 2:15)
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1 Cor. 4:9• 9For, I think, b God set us the apostles last as devoted to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, to both angels and men: (1 Cor. 4:9)
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Heb. 10:33• 33on this side made a spectacle in both reproaches and afflictions, and on that become companions of those so used; (Heb. 10:33)
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Jude 7• 7as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities around them, having in the like manner with them greedily committed fornication and gone after strange flesh, lie there an example, undergoing judgment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.

W. Kelly Translation

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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.