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Nahum

Hebrew — Westminster Leningrad Codex · 3 chapters

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Nahum 1:1

מַשָּׂ֖א נִֽינְוֵ֑ה סֵ֧פֶר חֲז֛וֹן נַח֖וּם הָאֶלְקֹשִֽׁי

burden of · Nineveh · book of · vision of · Nahum · the Elkoshite

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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Nahum — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.

  1. יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 13
  2. כֹּל H3605 kôl all 12
  3. אָכַל H398 ʼâkal to eat 6
  4. עָבַר H5674 ʻâbar to pass over 5
  5. פָּנֶה H6440 pânîym face 5
  6. יוֹם H3117 yôwm day 4
  7. אָיַב H341 ʼôyêb enemy 4
  8. כָּרַת H3772 kârath to cut 4
  9. קוֹל H6963 qôwl voice 4
  10. אֲרִי H738 ʼărîy lion 4
  11. אֵשׁ H784 ʼêsh fire 4
  12. גָּדוֹל H1419 gâdôwl great 3

About this book

  • 3 Chapters
  • 47 Verses
  • 562 Hebrew words
  • 351 Distinct lemmas

Nahum is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 3 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.

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