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Habakkuk 3

Hab. 3:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou wentest forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
for the salvation
yesha` (Hebrew #3468)
from 3467; liberty, deliverance, prosperity
KJV usage: safety, salvation, saving.
Pronounce: yeh'-shah
Origin: or yeshai {yay'-shah}
of thy people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
, even for salvation
yesha` (Hebrew #3468)
from 3467; liberty, deliverance, prosperity
KJV usage: safety, salvation, saving.
Pronounce: yeh'-shah
Origin: or yeshai {yay'-shah}
with thine anointed
mashiyach (Hebrew #4899)
anointed; usually a consecrated person (as a king, priest, or saint); specifically, the Messiah
KJV usage: anointed, Messiah.
Pronounce: maw-shee'-akh
Origin: from 4886
; thou woundedst
machats (Hebrew #4272)
to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy
KJV usage: dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.
Pronounce: maw-khats'
Origin: a primitive root
the head
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
e out of the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
, by φdiscovering
`arah (Hebrew #6168)
to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish
KJV usage: leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase, spread self, uncover.
Pronounce: aw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
the foundation
ycowd (Hebrew #3247)
a foundation (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bottom, foundation, repairing
Pronounce: yes-ode'
Origin: from 3245
unto the neck
tsavva'r (Hebrew #6677)
or tsavvaron (Song of Solomon 4:9) {tsav-vaw-rone'}; or (feminine) tsavva.rah (Micah 2:3) {tsav-vaw-raw'}; intensively from 6696 in the sense of binding; the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound)
KJV usage: neck.
Pronounce: tsav-vawr'
Origin: or tsavvar (Nehemiah 3:5) {tsav-vawr'}
. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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Psa. 110:6• 6He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill all places with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country. (Psa. 110:6)
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making naked.

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Head,
House,
Salvation,
Selah,
The Anointed

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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wentest.
Ex. 14:13‑14• 13And Moses said to the people, Fear not: stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you to-day; for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
 14Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall be still. (Ex. 14:13‑14)
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Ex. 15:1‑2• 1Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to Jehovah, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto Jehovah, for he is highly exalted: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
 2My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my *God, and I will glorify him; My father's God, and I will extol him. (Ex. 15:1‑2)
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Psa. 68:7,19‑23• 7O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness--(Selah)--
 19Blessed be the Lord: day by day doth he load us with good, the *God who is our salvation. Selah.
 20Our *God is the *God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth even from death.
 21Verily God will smite the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth on still in his trespasses.
 22The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring them again from the depth of the sea;
 23That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy dogs has its portion from enemies. (Psa. 68:7,19‑23)
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Psa. 77:20• 20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. (Psa. 77:20)
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Psa. 89:19‑21• 19Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
 20I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
 21With whom my hand shall be established; and mine arm shall strengthen him. (Psa. 89:19‑21)
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Psa. 99:6• 6Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name: they called unto Jehovah, and *he* answered them. (Psa. 99:6)
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Psa. 105:15,26• 15Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
 26He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen: (Psa. 105:15,26)
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Isa. 63:11• 11But he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him, (Isa. 63:11)
thou woundedst.
Ex. 12:29‑30• 29And it came to pass that at midnight Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his bondmen, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house in which there was not one dead. (Ex. 12:29‑30)
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Josh. 10:11,24,42• 11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel,--they were at the descent of Beth-horon,--that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them up to Azekah, and they died. They were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel had slain with the sword.
 24And it came to pass when they had brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called to all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come forward, put your feet on the necks of these kings. And they came forward and put their feet on their necks.
 42and all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time; for Jehovah the God of Israel fought for Israel. (Josh. 10:11,24,42)
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Josh. 11:8,12• 8And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and to Misrephoth-maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward, and smote them until none were left remaining to them.
 12And all the cities of those kings and all their kings did Joshua take; and he smote them with the edge of the sword, destroying them utterly, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded. (Josh. 11:8,12)
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Psa. 18:37‑45• 37I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned not again till they were consumed.
 38I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.
 39And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me.
 40And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
 41They cried, and there was none to save;--unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.
 42And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
 43Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me.
 44At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me.
 45Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places. (Psa. 18:37‑45)
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Psa. 68:21• 21Verily God will smite the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth on still in his trespasses. (Psa. 68:21)
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Psa. 74:13‑14• 13*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
 14*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. (Psa. 74:13‑14)
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Psa. 110:6• 6He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill all places with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country. (Psa. 110:6)
discovering.
Heb. making naked.
• To a Jew’s mind, and very properly, the salvation of Israel is as a rule bound up with the judgment of the Gentiles when the chosen people shall rise to their allotted and good eminence, at length fitted for it after humiliation....It is power that comes down to earth, and deals with the world, leaving the Jews for blessing, by the destruction of their enemies under the hand of God. (“Habakkuk 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou didst smite off the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah.