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Habakkuk 3:4

NETBible	He is as bright as lightning;¹ a two-pronged lightning bolt flashes from his hand.² This is the outward display of his power.³
NIV © biblegateway Hab 3:4	His splendour was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.
NASB © biblegateway Hab 3:4	His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.
NLT © biblegateway Hab 3:4	Rays of brilliant light flash from his hands. He rejoices in his awesome power.
MSG © biblegateway Hab 3:4	His cloud-brightness like dawn, exploding, spreading, forked-lightning shooting from his hand--what power hidden in that fist!
BBE © SABDAweb Hab 3:4	He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.
NRSV © bibleoremus Hab 3:4	The brightness was like the sun; rays came forth from his hand, where his power lay hidden.
NKJV © biblegateway Hab 3:4	His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, And there His power was hidden.
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KJV	And [his] brightness <05051> was as the light <0216>_; he had horns <07161> [coming] out of his hand <03027>_: and there [was] the hiding <02253> of his power <05797>_. {horns...: or, bright beams out of his side}
NASB © biblegateway Hab 3:4	His radiance <05051> is like the sunlight <0216> ; He has rays <07161> flashing from His hand <03027> , And there <08033> is the hiding <02253> of His power <05797> .
LXXM	kai <2532> CONJ feggov <5338> N-NSN autou <846> D-GSM wv <3739> CONJ fwv <5457> N-NSN estai <1510> V-FMI-3S kerata <2768> N-NPN en <1722> PREP cersin <5495> N-DPF autou <846> D-GSM kai <2532> CONJ eyeto <5087> V-AMI-3S agaphsin {N-ASF} krataian <2900> A-ASF iscuov <2479> N-GSF autou <846> D-GSM
NET [draft] ITL	He is as bright <05051> as lightning <0216> ; a two-pronged lightning bolt <07161> flashes from his hand <03027> . This is the outward <02253> display of his power <05797> .
HEBREW	*hze <05797> Nwybx <02253> Msw <08033> wl <0> wdym <03027> Mynrq <07161> hyht <01961> rwak <0216> hgnw (3:4) <05051>

NETBible

He is as bright as lightning;¹ a two-pronged lightning bolt flashes from his hand.² This is the outward display of his power.³

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “[His] radiance is like light.” Some see a reference to sunlight, but the Hebrew word אוֹר (’or) here refers to lightning, as the context indicates (see vv. 4b, 9, 11). The word also refers to lightning in Job 36:32 and 37:3, 11, 15.

²tn Heb “two horns from his hand to him.” Sharp, pointed lightning bolts have a “horn-like” appearance. The weapon of “double lightning” appears often in Mesopotamian representations of gods. See Elizabeth Van Buren, Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art (AnOr), 70-73.

³tn Heb “and there [is] the covering of his strength”; or “and there is his strong covering.” The meaning of this line is unclear. The point may be that the lightning bolts are merely a covering, or outward display, of God’s raw power. In Job 36:32 one reads that God “covers his hands with light [or, “lightning”].”