Zephaniah 2:6
Strong's Lexicon
So the seacoast
חֶ֣בֶל (ḥe·ḇel)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2256: 1) a cord, rope, territory, band, company 1a) a rope, cord 1b) a measuring-cord or line 1c) a measured portion, lot, part, region 1d) a band or company 2) pain, sorrow, travail, pang 2a) pains of travail 2b) pains, pangs, sorrows 3) union 4) destruction

הַיָּ֗ם (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3220: 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward

will become
וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה (wə·hā·yə·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

[a land of] pastures,
נְוֺ֛ת (nə·wōṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 5116: n m 1) abode, habitation, abode of shepherds or flocks, pasture 1a) abode (of sheep) 1b) abode (of shepherds) 1c) meadow 1d) habitation adj 2) dwelling, abiding

having caves
כְּרֹ֥ת (kə·rōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3741: 1) cottage

filled with shepherds
רֹעִ֖ים (rō·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7462: 1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tend, pasture 1a1a) to shepherd 1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig) 1a1c) of people as flock (fig) 1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst) 1a2) to feed, graze 1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal) 1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig) 1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess 2) to associate with, be a friend of (meaning probable) 2a) (Qal) to associate with 2b) (Hithpael) to be companions 3) (Piel) to be a special friend

and folds
וְגִדְר֥וֹת (wə·ḡiḏ·rō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1448: 1) wall, hedge 2) sheepfold (construct with 'sheep')

with sheep.
צֹֽאן׃ (ṣōn)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6629: 1) small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks 1a) small cattle (usually of sheep and goats) 1b) of multitude (simile) 1c) of multitude (metaphor)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages [for] shepherds, and folds [for] a flock.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The seacoast will become pasturelands with caves for shepherds and folds for sheep.

New American Standard Bible
So the seacoast will be pastures, [With] caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

King James Bible
And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The land by the sea will become pastures having wells for shepherds and pens for flocks.

New Living Translation
The Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture, a place of shepherd camps and enclosures for sheep and goats.

English Standard Version
And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.

New American Standard Bible
So the seacoast will be pastures, With caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

King James Bible
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The seacoast will become pasturelands with caves for shepherds and folds for sheep.

International Standard Version
The Philistine coast will become meadows for shepherds and sheep pens.

NET Bible
The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

American Standard Version
And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

English Revised Version
And the sea coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages for shepherds, and folds for a flock.
















Cross References
Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Isaiah 7:25
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Jeremiah 33:12
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Zephaniah 1:1
The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

Zephaniah 2:5
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2:4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

Zephaniah 2:7
And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
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