Zephaniah 2:6

NETBible

The seacoast 1  will be used as pasture lands 2  by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

NIV ©

The land by the sea, where the Kerethites dwell, will be a place for shepherds and sheep pens.

NASB ©

So the seacoast will be pastures, With caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

NLT ©

The coastal area will become a pasture, a place of shepherd camps and enclosures for sheep.

MSG ©

The lands of the seafarers will become pastureland, A country for shepherds and sheep.

BBE ©

And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.

NRSV ©

And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.

NKJV ©

The seacoast shall be pastures, With shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks.

KJV
And the sea
<03220>
coast
<02256>
shall be dwellings
<05116>
[and] cottages
<03741>
for shepherds
<07462> (8802)_,
and folds
<01448>
for flocks
<06629>_.
NASB ©
So the seacoast
<3220>
<2256> will be pastures
<5116>
,
With
caves
<3741>
for shepherds
<7462>
and folds
<1448>
for flocks
<6629>
.
LXXM
kai
<2532> 
CONJ
estai
<1510> 
V-FMI-3S
krhth
<2914> 
N-NSF
nomh
<3542> 
N-NSF
poimniwn
<4168> 
N-GPN
kai
<2532> 
CONJ
mandra {N-NSF} probatwn
<4263> 
N-GPN
NET [draft] ITL
The seacoast
<03220>
will be
<01961>
used as pasture
<05116>
lands
<03741>
by the shepherds
<07462>
and as pens
<01448>
for their flocks
<06629>
.
HEBREW
Nau
<06629>
twrdgw
<01448>
Myer
<07462>
trk
<03741>
twn
<05116>
Myh
<03220>
lbx
<02256>
htyhw (2:6)
<01961>
NETBible

The seacoast 1  will be used as pasture lands 2  by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

NET Notes

1 tn The NIV here supplies the phrase “where the Kerethites dwell” (“Kerethites” is translated in v. 5 as “the people who came from Crete”) as an interpretive gloss, but this phrase is not in the MT. The NAB likewise reads “the coastland of the Cretans,” supplying “Cretans” here.

2 tn The Hebrew phrase here is נְוֹת כְּרֹת (nÿvot kÿrot). The first word is probably a plural form of נָוָה (navah, “pasture”). The meaning of the second word is unclear. It may be a synonym of the preceding word (cf. NRSV “pastures, meadows for shepherds”); there is a word כַּר (kar, “pasture”) in biblical Hebrew, but elsewhere it forms its plural with a masculine ending. Some have suggested the meaning “wells” or “caves” used as shelters (cf. NEB “shepherds’ huts”); in this case, one might translate, “The seacoast will be used for pasturelands; for shepherds’ wells/caves.”