Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;

New American Standard Bible

The shephanim are not mighty people,
Yet they make their houses in the rocks;

King James Version

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

Holman Bible

hyraxes are not a mighty people,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

International Standard Version

The rock badgers aren't a strong species either, yet they build their dens in the rocks.

A Conservative Version

the conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks,

American Standard Version

The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

Amplified


The shephanim are not a mighty folk,
Yet they make their houses in the rocks;

Bible in Basic English

The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;

Julia Smith Translation

The rabbits a people not strong, and they will set their house in the rock;

King James 2000

The badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks;

Lexham Expanded Bible

the badgers [are] a people [who are] not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock;

Modern King James verseion

the rock-badgers are not a mighty people, yet they make their houses in the rock;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their couches among the rocks.

NET Bible

rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;

New Heart English Bible

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

The Emphasized Bible

The conies, a people of, no power, yet set they, among the crags, their house;

Webster

The conies are but a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;

World English Bible

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

Youngs Literal Translation

Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁפן 
Shaphan 
Usage: 34

are but a feeble
עצם עצוּם 
`atsuwm 
Usage: 31

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Four Things That Are Small - Yet Smart And Strong

25 The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; 26 the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff; 27 the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

Cross References

Psalm 104:18

The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers.

Leviticus 11:5

and the rock-badger, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs it shall be unclean unto you;

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