Nahum 1

1 a. oracle, prophecy

5 b. Tg. burns

9 c. Or devise

11 d. Lit. counselor of Belial

12 e. Or at peace or complete

14 f. Lit. No more of your name shall be fruitful

14 g. Or contemptible

15 h. Lit. one of Belial

Nahum 2

1 a. Vg. He who destroys

3 b. Lit. the cypresses are shaken; LXX, Syr. the horses rush about; Vg. the drivers are stupefied

7 c. Heb. Huzzab

8 d. Lit. Stand

9 e. Plunder

10 f. LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6

12 g. Lit. Strangled

12 h. Torn flesh

13 i. Lit. her

Nahum 3

1 a. Lit. prey

2 b. bounding or jolting

4 c. Spiritual unfaithfulness

4 d. Lit. goodly charm, in a bad sense

6 e. despicable

8 f. Ancient Thebes; Tg., Vg. populous Alexandria

8 g. Lit. rivers, the Nile and the surrounding canals

9 h. LXX her