Nahum 2:5
Strong's Lexicon
He summons
יִזְכֹּר֙ (yiz·kōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2142: 1) to remember, recall, call to mind 1a) (Qal) to remember, recall 1b) (Niphal) to be brought to remembrance, be remembered, be thought of, be brought to mind 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to remember, remind 1c2) to cause to be remembered, keep in remembrance 1c3) to mention 1c4) to record 1c5) to make a memorial, make remembrance

his nobles;
אַדִּירָ֔יו (’ad·dî·rāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 117: 1) great, majestic 1a) of waters of sea 1b) of a tree 1c) of kings, nations, gods 2) great one, majestic one 2a) of nobles, chieftains, servants

they stumble
יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ (yik·kā·šə·lū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3782: 1) to stumble, stagger, totter 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stumble 1a2) to totter 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to stumble 1b2) to be tottering, be feeble 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to stumble, bring injury or ruin to, overthrow 1c2) to make feeble, make weak 1d) (Hophal) to be made to stumble 1e) (Piel) bereave

as they advance.
(בַּהֲלִֽיכָתָ֑ם) (ba·hă·lî·ḵā·ṯām)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1979: 1) going, doing, travelling company, way 1a) going, walk, marching, doings 1b) travelling company, caravan

They race
יְמַֽהֲרוּ֙ (yə·ma·hă·rū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4116: 1)(Qal) to hasten 1a) (Niphal) to be hurried, be anxious 1a) hasty, precipitate, impetuous 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to hasten, make haste 1b2) hasten (used as adverb with another verb) 1b3) to hasten, prepare quickly, do quickly, bring quickly

to its wall;
חֽוֹמָתָ֔הּ (ḥō·w·mā·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2346: 1) wall

the protective shield
הַסֹּכֵֽךְ׃ (has·sō·ḵêḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5526: 1) (Qal) to hedge, fence about, shut in 2) to block, overshadow, screen, stop the approach, shut off, cover 2a) (Qal) 2a1) to screen, cover 2a2) to cover oneself 2a3) protector (participle) 2b) (Hiphil) 2b1) to screen, cover 2b2) to cover, defecate (euphemism) 3) (Qal) to cover, lay over 4) to weave together 4a) (Qal) to weave together 4b) (Pilpel) to weave, weave together

is set in place.
וְהֻכַ֖ן (wə·hu·ḵan)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hofal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3559: 1) to be firm, be stable, be established 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be set up, be established, be fixed 1a1a) to be firmly established 1a1b) to be established, be stable, be secure, be enduring 1a1c) to be fixed, be securely determined 1a2) to be directed aright, be fixed aright, be steadfast (moral sense) 1a3) to prepare, be ready 1a4) to be prepared, be arranged, be settled 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to establish, set up, accomplish, do, make firm 1b2) to fix, make ready, prepare, provide, provide for, furnish 1b3) to direct toward (moral sense) 1b4) to arrange, order 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be established, be fastened 1c2) to be prepared, be ready 1d) (Polel) 1d1) to set up, establish 1d2) to constitute, make 1d3) to fix 1d4) to direct 1e) (Pulal) to be established, be prepared 1f) (Hithpolel) to be established, be restored

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

Young's Literal Translation
He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten [to] its wall, and prepared is the covering.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He gives orders to his officers; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

New American Standard Bible
He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their march, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up.

King James Bible
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Nineveh summons her picked troops, yet they stumble on their way. They dash to the city wall; the protective shield is put in place.

New Living Translation
The king shouts to his officers; they stumble in their haste, rushing to the walls to set up their defenses.

English Standard Version
He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.

New American Standard Bible
He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their march, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up.

King James Bible
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He gives orders to his officers; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

International Standard Version
He will remember to summon his finest troops. They will stumble on their way, hurrying over to Nineveh's wall. Their defensive shield is in place.

NET Bible
The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

American Standard Version
He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

English Revised Version
He remembereth his worthies: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

Young's Literal Translation
He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten to its wall, and prepared is the covering.
















Cross References
Jeremiah 46:12
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

Nahum 2:6
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

Nahum 3:18
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 2:4
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

Nahum 2:3
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

Nahum 2:2
For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

Nahum 2:7
And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

Nahum 2:8
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
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