Nahum 3:8
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

Young's Literal Translation
Art thou better than No-Ammon, That is dwelling among brooks? Waters she hath round about her, Whose bulwark [is] the sea, waters her wall.

King James Bible
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?

Hebrew
Are you better
הֲתֵֽיטְבִי֙ (hă·ṯê·ṭə·ḇî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing

than Thebes,
מִנֹּ֣א (min·nō)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4996: Thebes -- an Egyptian city

situated
הַיֹּֽשְׁבָה֙ (hay·yō·šə·ḇāh)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

by the Nile
בַּיְאֹרִ֔ים (bay·’ō·rîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

with water
מַ֖יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

around her,
סָבִ֣יב (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

whose
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

rampart
חֵ֣יל (ḥêl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2426: An army, an intrenchment

was the sea,
יָ֔ם (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

whose wall
חוֹמָתָֽהּ׃ (ḥō·w·mā·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 2346: A wall of protection

was the water?
מִיָּ֖ם (mî·yām)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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