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Nahum 3:2

The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

KJV

Vox flagelli, et vox impetus rotæ, et equi frementis, et quadrigæ ferventis, et equitis ascendentis,

Vulgate

φωνὴ μαστίγων καὶ φωνὴ σεισμοῦ τροχῶν, καὶ ἵππου διώκοντος καὶ ἅρματος ἀναβράσσοντος,

LXX

The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

ASV

ק֣וֹל שׁ֔וֹט וְ/ק֖וֹל רַ֣עַשׁ אוֹפָ֑ן וְ/ס֣וּס דֹּהֵ֔ר וּ/מֶרְכָּבָ֖ה מְרַקֵּדָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אוֹפַ֣ן
'vpn
noun · 35×
דֹּהֵ֔ר
dhr
verb · 1×
ו
v
noun · 44×
ן
n
verb · 9×
סוּסִ֖ים
svsym
noun · 141×
ק֣וֹל
qvl
noun · 503×
רַ֣עַשׁ
r'sh
noun · 17×
שּׁוֹטִ֔ים
shvtym
noun · 11×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Ezek 26:7 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much
  • Jer 47:3 — At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of h
  • Job 39:22 — He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
  • Judg 5:22 — Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
  • Nah 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.
  • Nah 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.