Nahum 1:6
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.”
קוּם
To arise, to stand up, to establish. Quwm. Arise shine for your light has come. God calls His people to get up. Passivity is not the posture of those who carry His glory.
מִי
who?
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מִי
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
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זַעַם
indignation/ his
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זַעַם
strictly froth at the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) fury (especially of God's displeasure with sin)
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עָמַד
will he stand
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עָמַד
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
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מִן
from/ him
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מִן
properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
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נָתַךְ
it is poured out
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נָתַךְ
to flow forth (literally or figuratively); by implication, to liquify
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חֵמָה
rage/ his
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חֵמָה
heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
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נָתַץ
they are pulled down
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נָתַץ
to tear down
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