Joel 1:6 KJV

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Matthew Henry

  • A plague of locustsThe most aged could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat the fruits of it. It is...

Thompson Chains

Parallel Passages

  • Revelation 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Psalms 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
  • Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Proverbs 30:25–27 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; …
  • Isaiah 8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

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Hebrew and Strong’s

  • For a nation כִּי kî Conjunction גוֹי gôy גּוֹי Noun · masculine singular
  • is come up עָלָה ʿālâ עָלָה Verb · qal perfect, third person masculine singular
  • upon my land עַל ʿal Preposition אַרְצִי ʾarṣî אֶרֶץ Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with suffix: first person common singular
  • strong עָצוּם ʿāṣûm עָצוּם Adjective · masculine singular
  • and without number וְאֵין wĕʾên Negative · with and מִסְפָּר mispār מִסְפָּר Noun · masculine singular
  • whose teeth שִׁנָּיו šinnāyw שֵׁן Noun · masculine or feminine dual construct · with suffix: third person masculine singular
  • the teeth שִׁנֵּי šinnê שֵׁן Noun · masculine or feminine dual construct
  • of a lion אַרְיֵה ʾaryê אֲרִי Noun · masculine singular
  • and he hath the cheek teeth וּמְתַלְּעוֹת ûmĕtallĕʿôt מְתַלְּעָה Noun · feminine plural construct · with and
  • of a great lion לָבִיא lābîʾ לָבִיא Noun · masculine or feminine singular לוֹ lô Preposition · with suffix: third person masculine singular

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