KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Nahum 1:5–6
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Nahum 1:5
5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
5The mountaines quake at him, and the hilles melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence, yea the world and all that dwell therein.
Nahum 1:6
6Who 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.
6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can †abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? his furie is powred out like fire, and the rocks are throwen downe by him.
- Heb. stand vp.
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DEFINED WORDS
Nahum 1:5
To tremble or shake, especially with fear.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To become liquid, dissolve, or waste away, literally or in the stated comparison.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Nahum 1:6
To be upright, remain, endure, take a position, or present oneself.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
indignation
Anger or extreme anger, mingled with contempt, disgust or abhorrence; chafing.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828
To remain or dwell.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
fierceness
Great intensity, violence, fury, or vehemence of the anger, wrath, rage, attack, or force named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Strong displeasure or indignation; as a verb, to provoke to such displeasure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sent forth; thrown.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Flame and burning heat; figuratively, fiery trial, judgment, zeal, or anger; to kindle or burn.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Cast, hurled, or flung; in thrown down, demolished or overthrown.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
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Open the full verse study8Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
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Open the full verse study24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
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Open the full verse study10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
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Open the full verse study1OH that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
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Open the full verse study5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
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Open the full verse study8The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
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Open the full verse study4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
5The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
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Open the full verse study18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
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Open the full verse study4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
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Open the full verse study6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
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Open the full verse study5The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
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Open the full verse study6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
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Open the full verse study7Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
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Open the full verse study7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, 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 the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
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Open the full verse study12For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
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Open the full verse study51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
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Open the full verse study2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
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Open the full verse study11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
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Open the full verse study10But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
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Open the full verse study2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
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Open the full verse study22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
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Open the full verse study7Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
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Open the full verse study2God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
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Open the full verse study11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
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Open the full verse study16And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
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Open the full verse study16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
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Open the full verse study4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
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Open the full verse study4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
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Open the full verse study11The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
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Open the full verse study12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
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Open the full verse study11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
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Open the full verse study1AND I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
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Open the full verse study17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
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