Habakkuk 1:6
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Young's Literal Translation
For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own.

King James Bible
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.

Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

behold,
הִנְנִ֤י (hin·nî)
Interjection | first person common singular
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

I am raising up
מֵקִים֙ (mê·qîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

the Chaldeans—
הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים (hak·kaś·dîm)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3778: Chaldeans -- a region of southern Babylon and its inhab

that ruthless
הַמַּ֣ר (ham·mar)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 4751: Bitter, bitterness, bitterly

and impetuous
וְהַנִּמְהָ֑ר (wə·han·nim·hār)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 4116: To be liquid, flow easily, to hurry, promptly

nation
הַגּ֖וֹי (hag·gō·w)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

that marches
הַֽהוֹלֵךְ֙ (ha·hō·w·lêḵ)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

through the breadth
לְמֶרְחֲבֵי־ (lə·mer·ḥă·ḇê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4800: A broad or roomy place

of the earth
אֶ֔רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

to seize
לָרֶ֖שֶׁת (lā·re·šeṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

dwelling places
מִשְׁכָּנ֥וֹת (miš·kā·nō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle

not
לֹּא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

their own.
לֽוֹ׃ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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