Nahum 3:18
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

Young's Literal Translation
Slumbered have thy friends, king of Asshur, Rest do thine honourable ones, Scattered have been thy people on the mountains, And there is none gathering.

King James Bible
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth [them].

Hebrew
O king
מֶ֣לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Assyria,
אַשּׁ֔וּר (’aš·šūr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 804: Ashshur

your shepherds
רֹעֶ֙יךָ֙ (rō·‘e·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

slumber;
נָמ֤וּ (nā·mū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5123: To be drowsy, slumber

your officers
אַדִּירֶ֑יךָ (’ad·dî·re·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 117: Wide, large, powerful

sleep.
יִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ (yiš·kə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7931: To settle down, abide, dwell

Your people
עַמְּךָ֛ (‘am·mə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

are scattered
נָפֹ֧שׁוּ (nā·p̄ō·šū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6335: Probably to spring about

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the mountains
הֶהָרִ֖ים (he·hā·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

with no one
וְאֵ֥ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

to gather them.
מְקַבֵּֽץ׃ (mə·qab·bêṣ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6908: To gather, collect

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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