Habakkuk 2:12

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

הוי הוֹי

woe/alas

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

הוי

hôwy

Definition

oh!

Root

a prolonged form of H1930 (הו) (akin to H188 (אוי));

Exhaustive

a prolonged form of הו (akin to אוי); oh!; ah, alas, ho, O, woe.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1945

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

הוֹי

interjection • Strongs / High • Page 394

Interjection, same as אוֹי; an exclamation of threatening, grief, or exhortation.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

הוֹי

interjection • Page 183

1. of threatening, wo! alas! (Is. 1:4). 2. of grief, ah! alas! (1 K. 13:30). 3. of exhorting, come on! ho! (Zech. 2:10; Is. 55:1).

Particle interjection

LXX: οὐαὶ ὦ ---

LXX Usage Statistics

H1945:

οὐαὶ 31× (62.4%)

ὦ 11× (21.8%)

--- 3× (6.0%)

בנה בֹּנֶה

he has built

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

בנה

bânâh

Definition

to build (literally and figuratively)

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively); (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1129

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

בָּנָה

verb • Root בנה • Strongs / High • Page 257

To set up, to place; 1. to build, to erect, establish, to raise (a house, palace, city, temple, etc.); to build up (what is destroyed), to rebuild; to fortify. 2. Figuratively: to establish family happiness, posterity; to set up a throne; to bestow prosperity or well-being; to establish.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

בָּנָה

verb • Page 105

1. To build, erect, or make (Gen. 8:20, 12:7; Gen. 2:22 regarding the rib). 2. To rebuild or build up what has been destroyed (Am. 9:14, Ps. 122:3). 3. Figuratively used for persons or nations, to build them up or make them prosperous (Jer. 24:6, 31:4).

בָּנָה

verb • Page 106

(Continued from previous page) 4. to raise up, or give posterity to any one (Gen. 16:2). Niph. 1. to be built, rebuilt (Deut. 13:17). 2. figuratively to be built up, to be made prosperous (Jer. 12:16, Mal. 3:15).

Verb Qal participle active masculine singular absolute

LXX: ᾠκοδόμησεν οἰκοδομῆσαι ᾠκοδόμησαν οἰκοδομήσει οἰκοδομήσεισ

LXX Usage Statistics

H1129:

ᾠκοδόμησεν 94× (22.6%)

οἰκοδομῆσαι 36× (8.5%)

ᾠκοδόμησαν 26× (6.2%)

οἰκοδομήσει 16× (4.2%)

οἰκοδομήσεισ 16× (4.0%)

ᾠκοδόμησα 14× (3.5%)

οἰκοδομήσουσιν 9× (2.1%)

οἰκοδομεῖν 8× (1.9%)

οἰκοδομήσω 8× (1.9%)

--- 7× (1.8%)

עיר עיר

an awake city

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

עיר

ʻîyr

Definition

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

Root

or (in the plural) ער; or עיר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עור)

Exhaustive

or (in the plural) ער; or עיר; (Judges 10:4), from עור; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post); Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H5892

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

עִיר

noun proper masculine • Strongs / High • Page 1061

Proper name masculine meaning 'one setting up, strengthening'.

עִיר

noun feminine • Root עור • Strongs / High • Page 1083

1. An enclosed, fenced place, proceeding from the verb-idea 'to fence round, encircle, enclose'; hence town, city. 2. dwelling.

עִיר

noun feminine • Strongs / High • Page 1084

1. A tower, a castle, a tower of watch; 2. A city generally, also a village, hamlet, or encampment; 3. Part of a city; 4. Metaphor for the inhabitants of a city.

עִיר

noun masculine • Root עיר • Strongs / High • Page 1084

Heat, anger, wrath.

עִיר

noun proper masculine • Root עיר • Strongs / High • Page 1084

A proper name (a man mentioned in 1 Chr. 7, 12).

עִיר

noun masculine (aramaic) • Root עיר • Strongs / High • Page 1084

A watcher (Aram.), referring to archangels, good angels, or fallen ones.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

הֵעִיר

verb • Root עור • Page 498

1. To awaken from sleep. Zech. 4:1. 2. To stir up (e.g., the leviathan). Job 41:2; Deut. 32:11. 3. intrans. to awake. Ps. 35:23; Job 8:6.

עִיר

noun feminine • Page 505

I. a city. References include city of God (Ps. 46: 5), the holy city (Neh. 11: 1), and several proper names like city of salt and city of palms (Jericho).

עִיר

noun • Page 505

II. perhaps anger, hostile attack. Jer. 15:8; Hos. 11:9. Comp. Arab. med. Vav to attack, assault.

עִיר

m. chald. • Page 505

a watcher, a name of angels in the later Jewish demonology, so called because they watch over the souls of men. Dan. 4: 10, 14, 20.

Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: πόλεισ πόλιν πόλεωσ πόλει πόλισ

LXX Usage Statistics

H5892b:

πόλεισ 250× (22.9%)

πόλιν 200× (17.5%)

πόλεωσ 192× (17.0%)

πόλει 120× (9.9%)

πόλισ 83× (7.5%)

πόλεσιν 76× (6.1%)

πόλεων 50× (4.4%)

'' 35× (3.1%)

--- 26× (2.7%)

pεἰσ 16× (1.7%)

בדמים בְּדָמים

in the hand

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ב

bə

Definition

in, by

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix

Exhaustive

(beth) — in / within / by means of

Core value: interiority, enclosure, participation

ב does not primarily mean “in time” (“when”) or even “in space.” It marks being inside a domain, whether that domain is:
- spatial (house, land),
- conceptual (wisdom, covenant),
- modal (strength, fear),
- instrumental (by means of).
Aonically, ב marks immersion.
not “when X happened” but “within the state or field of X.”
This is why ב־יום does not need to mean “on the day (chronological)” but “within the day-realm / condition”.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

דם

dâm

Definition

blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)

Root

from H1826 (דמם) (compare H119 (אדם));

Exhaustive

from דמם (compare אדם); blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood); blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1818

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

דָּם

noun masculine • Root דמה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 371

Blood, properly something viscous and flowing; can refer to the blood of animals or men, menstrual flux, life, blood-guiltiness, murder, or bloodshed.

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

דָּם

m. prim. const. • Page 168

1. blood. (Gen. 9:5). Phrases: 'to eat (flesh) with the blood' (1 Sam. 14:32ff); 'innocent blood' (2 K. 21:16); 'blood of grapes' (red wine, Gen. 49:11). 2. bloodshed, murder, bloodguiltiness. (Gen. 37:26, Lev. 17:4).

Preposition, Noun common masculine plural absolute

LXX: αἷμα αἵματοσ αἵματι αἵματα αἱμάτων

LXX Usage Statistics

H1818:

αἷμα 181× (46.7%)

αἵματοσ 68× (16.2%)

αἵματι 23× (5.7%)

αἵματα 17× (4.2%)

αἱμάτων 16× (4.4%)

αὐτῆσ 12× (2.3%)

αἷμά 7× (1.7%)

αἵμασιν 7× (1.6%)

'' 7× (1.7%)

ἔνοχοί 5× (1.5%)

וכונן וְכוֹנֵן

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ו

wāw

Definition

sequential 'and'

Root

From H8505; a prefix

Exhaustive

Vav Conversive/Consecutive: The category “vav conversive / vav consecutive” is not an ancient grammatical datum; it is a modern explanatory construct, developed by early Hebraists to force Biblical Hebrew into a Latin/chronological tense model that it simply does not share.

The notion arose in early modern grammar (17th–19th c.) when scholars assumed:
- verbs must encode tense,
- narratives must advance by past → present → future,
- therefore Hebrew forms that “don’t behave” must be converted.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

כון

kûwn

Definition

properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous); certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, [idiom] very deed.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H3559

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

כּוּן

verb • Root כון • Strongs / High • Page 683

Properly, to stand, stand upright, stand firm; therefore to be, to exist. Transitive: to prepare, to create.

כּוּן

verb • Root כון • Strongs / High • Page 684

To be certainly; to be ready, determined; to be conducted, managed; to prepare oneself.

כּוּן

verb • Root כון • Strongs / High • Page 684

(not used) properly, to make firm, to ground, cognate in sense to שָׁפַת; metaphorically, to spread out, to make broad, flat, of a cake.

כּוּן

verb • Root כון • Strongs / High • Page 684

(not used) to set up, erect, a pillar.

כּוּן

noun • Root כון • Strongs / High • Page 684

(properly, establishing, founding of the...)

כּוּן

noun proper • Root כון • Strongs / High • Page 685

A proper noun for a city in Aram-Zobah, along with טִבְחַת or בֶּטַח, lying on the high road toward the Euphrates. The entry discusses its possible identification with Conna or Berothai and its etymological connection to Saturn worship or the concept of 'foundation', 'firmness', or 'continuance'.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

כּוּן

verb • Page 311

Literally to stand up; not used in Kal. In Pilel כּוֹנֵן: 1. to raise up, erect; 2. to found; 3. to direct (e.g., an arrow); 4. to prepare, form, make. In Pulal כּוֹנָן: to be prepared, to be established. In Hithpalel הִתְכּוֹנֵן: 1. to be founded, established; 2. to make one's self ready. In Hiph. הֵכִין: 1. to raise up, erect, place; 2. to appoint to an office; 3. to found; 4. to direct (heart or arrow); 5. to prepare. In Niph.: to be placed upright, to stand firm; metaphorically to be becoming, right, suitable.

כּוּן

proper noun • Page 312

A Phenician city, which in the parallel passage 2 Sam. 8:9, is called בֵּרוֹתַי Berytus. Mentioned in 1 Chr. 18:8.

conjunctive, Verb Piel sequential perfect third person masculine singular

LXX: ἡτοίμασεν ἡτοίμασαν '' ἕτοιμοσ ἑτοιμάσαι

LXX Usage Statistics

H3559a:

ἡτοίμασεν 19× (8.6%)

ἡτοίμασαν 11× (5.0%)

'' 6× (2.4%)

ἕτοιμοσ 5× (2.4%)

ἑτοιμάσαι 5× (2.2%)

ἡτοιμάσθη 5× (1.9%)

ἡτοίμασασ 4× (1.8%)

ἡτοίμασα 4× (1.8%)

--- 4× (1.9%)

ἑτοίμη 4× (1.9%)

קריה קִרְיָה

meeting-city

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

קריה

qiryâh

Definition

building; a city

Root

from H7136 (קרה) in the sense of flooring, i.e.

Exhaustive

from קרה in the sense of flooring, i.e.; building; a city; city.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H7151

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

קִרְיָה

aram. f. city (aramaic) • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 1298

Aramaic feminine noun for city (def. קִרְיָא).

קִרְיָה

noun feminine • Root קרה • Strongs / High • Page 1298

properly a connected row of houses, then a city (poetic usage for עִיר).

קִרְיָה

noun proper feminine • Strongs / High • Page 1298

City. Used for Jerusalem and Babylon. Often used in compound names of cities.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

קִרְיָה

noun feminine • Page 596

a city, i. q. עִיר, but almost solely in poetry (Is. 1: 21, 26. 22: 2. 25: 2. 26: 5. 32: 13). Kindred with קִיר no. 2. or verbal from קָרָה to build.

Noun common feminine singular absolute

LXX: πόλισ πόλεωσ πόλεισ πόλιν

LXX Usage Statistics

H7151:

πόλισ 14× (38.1%)

πόλισ 7× (16.9%)

πόλεωσ 6× (14.9%)

πόλεισ 3× (8.1%)

πόλιν 2× (5.7%)

בעולה בְּעַוְלָה׃

in the hand

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ב

bə

Definition

in, by

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix

Exhaustive

(beth) — in / within / by means of

Core value: interiority, enclosure, participation

ב does not primarily mean “in time” (“when”) or even “in space.” It marks being inside a domain, whether that domain is:
- spatial (house, land),
- conceptual (wisdom, covenant),
- modal (strength, fear),
- instrumental (by means of).
Aonically, ב marks immersion.
not “when X happened” but “within the state or field of X.”
This is why ב־יום does not need to mean “on the day (chronological)” but “within the day-realm / condition”.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

עול

ʻevel

Definition

(moral) evil

Root

or עול; and (feminine) עולה; or עולה; or עלה; from H5765 (עול);

Exhaustive

or עול; and (feminine) עולה; or עולה; or עלה; from עול; (moral) evil; iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H5766

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

עוֹלָה

noun / masculine • Root עלה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1064

(from עָלָה) m. same as מַעֲגָלָה a step, stairs.

Matched via consonantal key only

עוּלָה

unknown • Root עלה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1092

Derivative of עָלָה.

Matched via consonantal key only

עַוְלָה

noun / feminine • Root עול • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1064

(fem. of עָגִיל, poetically lengthened by an accentless a עֲגִילָה) f. a curse, bad thing. Also refers to a perverse, bad, dishonest man.

Matched via consonantal key only

עַוְלָה

noun / feminine • Root עול • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1064

(poet.) fem. 1. same as עֹלָה (Is. 61, 8).

Matched via consonantal key only

עַוְלָה

noun / feminine • Root עלה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1064

(from עָלָה) plur. with suff. עֲגֻלֹתֵיהֶם same as מַעֲגָלָה a step, staircase, stairs.

Matched via consonantal key only

עַוְלָה

noun / feminine • Root עלה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1064

(from עָלָה) meaning sacrifice, whole burnt-offering, see עֹלָה.

Matched via consonantal key only

עֹולָה

unknown • Root עלה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1092

Derivative of עָלָה.

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

עוֹלָה

noun feminine • Root עלה • Page 496

A burnt-offering. See עֹלָה.

עַוְלָה

f. verbal • Root עול • Page 496

The unrighteous, the wicked, 2 Sam. 3 : 34. Ps. 92: 16. Also contracted לְעַתָה Job 5: 16.

עַוְלָה

noun feminine • Page 509

Unrighteousness, iniquity. Job 5: 16. Identical to עַוְלָה.

Preposition, Noun common feminine singular absolute

LXX: ἄδικον ἀδικία ἀδικίασ ἀδικίαν ἀνομίασ

LXX Usage Statistics

H5766b:

ἄδικον 7× (12.7%)

ἀδικία 7× (12.5%)

ἀδικίασ 7× (11.6%)

ἀδικίαν 5× (9.3%)

ἀνομίασ 4× (7.4%)

ἀνομίαν 3× (5.0%)

παράπτωμα 2× (3.7%)

ἀδικίαισ 2× (3.2%)

RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity.

LITV Translation:
Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by iniquity!

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.