Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, yea, without end. Put and Lubim were among your helpers.
New American Standard Bible
And Egypt too, without limits.
King James Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Holman Bible
Put and Libya were among her
International Standard Version
Sudan was her source of strength, along with Egypt there were no limits. Put and the Libyans were her allies.
A Conservative Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite. Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
American Standard Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Amplified
Ethiopia was her strength,
And Egypt too, without limits.
Bible in Basic English
Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.
Darby Translation
Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.
Julia Smith Translation
Cush her strength, and Egypt, and no end; Put and Lubim were among thy helpers.
King James 2000
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was without limit; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Cush [was] her strength, Egypt without end; Put and Libya were among {your allies}.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and that exceedingly great above measure. Put and Libya were her helpers,
NET Bible
Cush and Egypt had limitless strength; Put and the Libyans were among her allies.
New Heart English Bible
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
The Emphasized Bible
Ethiopia, was her strength, and Egypt - Yea, without end, - Put and Lubim, were among thy helpers.
Webster
Cush and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
World English Bible
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cush her might, and Egypt, and there is no end. Put and Lubim have been for thy help.
Themes
Lubims » The region they inhabited was called phut in
Phut » The descendants of phut, or the country inhabited by them
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh Will Suffer The Same Fate She Inflicted On Thebes
8 Are you better than No Amon, that dwelt among the Nile branches, waters all around her, whose rampart was the sea, the waters her wall? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, yea, without end. Put and Lubim were among your helpers. 10 Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity, and her young children also were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Phrases
Cross References
Ezekiel 27:10
Persia and Lud and Lydia were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they set your splendor.
Ezekiel 30:5
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mixed people; and Chub, and the men of the land who are in covenant with them shall fall by the sword.
Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan.
2 Chronicles 12:3
with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people who came with him out of Egypt were without number: Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.
Jeremiah 46:9
Come up, horses; and rage chariots! And let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield, and the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.
Ezekiel 38:5
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
1 Chronicles 1:8
The sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.