Nahum 3:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

Young's Literal Translation
Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.

King James Bible
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

Hebrew
You have multiplied
הִרְבֵּית֙ (hir·bêṯ)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

your merchants
רֹֽכְלַ֔יִךְ (rō·ḵə·la·yiḵ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7402: To travel for, trading

more than the stars
מִכּוֹכְבֵ֖י (mik·kō·wḵ·ḇê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3556: A star, a prince

of the sky.
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם (haš·šā·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

The young locust
יֶ֥לֶק (ye·leq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3218: A devourer, the young locust

strips the land
פָּשַׁ֖ט (pā·šaṭ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6584: To strip off, make a dash, raid

and flies away.
וַיָּעֹֽף׃ (way·yā·‘ōp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5774: To fly, to faint

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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