Nahum 2:8
But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.This verse in the real world
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- בְּרֵכָהbᵉrêkâha reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place)
- נִינְוֵהNîynᵉvêhNineveh, the capital of Assyria
- נוּסnûwçto flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
- מַיִםmayimwater; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
- עָמַדʻâmadto stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
- יוֹםyôwma day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.