Zephaniah 2:12

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The LORD [will be] terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and [men] shall worship him, every one from his place, [even] all the isles of the heathen.	Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.	And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Ye Ethiopians^H3569 also, ye^H1992 shall be slain^H2491 by my sword^H2719.

Original Hebrew

גַּם־אַתֶּם כּוּשִׁים חַלְלֵי חַרְבִּי הֵמָּה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
גַּם	gam-	H1571	HTa	also
אַתֶּ֣ם	'a.Tem	H859	HPp2mp	you
כּוּשִׁ֔ים	ku.Shim	H3569	HNgmpa	O Cushites
חַֽלְלֵ֥י	cha.Lei	H2491	HAampc	(are those) slain of
חַרְבִּ֖/י	char.B/i	H2719	HNcfsc/Sp1cs	sword/ my
הֵֽמָּה	He.mah	H1992	HPp3mp	they

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H1992 — הֵם (hêm, haym): or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from הֲלַךְ; they (only used when emphatic); it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
H2491 — חָלָל (châlâl, khaw-lawl'): from חָלַל; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted; kill, profane, slain (man), [idiom] slew, (deadly) wounded.
H2719 — חֶרֶב (chereb, kheh'-reb): from חָרַב; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement; axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
H3569 — כּוּשִׁי (Kûwshîy, koo-shee'): patronymically from כּוּשׁ; a Cushite, or descendant of Cush; Cushi, Cushite, Ethiopian(-s).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H859 — אַתָּה (ʼattâh, at-taw'): or (shortened); אַתָּ; or אַת; feminine (irregular) sometimes אַתִּי; plural masculine אַתֶּם; feminine אַתֶּן; or אַתֵּנָהlemma אתֵּנָה missing vowel, corrected to אַתֵּנָה; or אַתֵּנָּה; a primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you; thee, thou, ye, you.
H1571 — גַּם (gam, gam): by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.

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