On the Greek text. The Greek follows the standard critical text of the Septuagint (Rahlfs-Hanhart in its main wording, itself an ancient, public-domain text); the distinctively copyrighted critical apparatus is not reproduced. Versification follows the LXX.

The Book of the Prophet Nahum (LXX) — Interlinear: Themes, Outlines & Translation Notes

A consolidated companion to the Nahum data set: every chapter of LXX Nahum (1-3) rendered as a six-tier Greek reverse-interlinear (Greek · gloss · parsing/case · syntax · semantic force · lexical note), with per-verse discourse analysis and a chapter argument-outline.

This document gathers the theme, the argument outline (the outline movements authored into each data file), and the translation / textual / exegetical notes (the text_note of each file, reproduced verbatim). Major translation and interpretive cruxes are handled within those notes rather than silently resolved. Nahum is the taunt and doom-song over Nineveh: the avenging God comes in storm, the bloody city is stormed, and the empire that terrorized nations becomes an object of public derision. The Greek preserves the prophecy's concentrated force and its theology of divine vengeance on the oppressor. The Greek follows the standard critical text of the Septuagint (Rahlfs–Hanhart in its main wording, itself an ancient public-domain text); the distinctively copyrighted apparatus is not reproduced, and versification follows the LXX.

Scope

Each annotated word carries Greek, a working gloss, color-coded grammatical case, parsing (Tense·Voice·Mood·Person·Number + lemma), a Wallace-style syntactic-function label, an aspectual semantic-force label (verbal forms), and a condensed lexical note. As translation Greek, the annotation additionally flags Hebraisms and the underlying Hebrew idiom where it illuminates the rendering.

The argument of the book

The macro-structure of the whole book — its major movements — under which the chapter-by-chapter detail below unfolds. Nahum is brief but highly wrought, moving from hymn to siege-vision to funeral taunt. The annotation tracks its battle imagery, mockery, and the interplay of comfort for Judah with catastrophe for Nineveh. (Section divisions are interpretive; the more common analysis is generally followed.)

• I · 1 — The avenging God and the announced fall of Nineveh. A theophanic hymn introduces the LORD as jealous and just, setting comfort for Judah alongside doom for the oppressor.
• II · 2 — The city's assault and collapse. Chariots flash, defenders panic, and Nineveh is portrayed in the moment of irreversible military overthrow.
• III · 3 — The bloody city exposed and mocked. Violence, seduction, and imperial cruelty are remembered back against Nineveh until all who hear of her downfall clap their hands.

Chapter-by-chapter

Nahum 1 — ΝΑΟΥΜ Α′

Theme. The avenging Lord destroys Nineveh yet shelters those who wait.

Outline.

• A · 1:1 — The burden against Nineveh is announced. The superscription identifies the prophecy as Nahum's visionary burden concerning Nineveh.
• B · 1:2-6 — The Lord appears as avenger and cosmic judge. A hymn celebrates the Lord’s jealousy, patience, and irresistible wrath, before which seas dry up, mountains quake, and no creature can stand.
• C · 1:7-8 — The Lord is good to his own but overwhelming to his enemies. The same Lord who is a refuge for those who wait for him makes a flood-like end of his adversaries and drives his enemies into darkness.
• D · 1:9-11 — Nineveh’s plots are exposed as futile. The prophet mocks every scheme against the Lord, declaring that hostile counsel rising from Nineveh will end in complete destruction.
• E · 1:12-14 — Judah is promised release while Nineveh is sentenced to extinction. The closing oracle announces the cutting off of Nineveh’s report and line, the destruction of its cult-images, and the breaking of the oppressor’s yoke from God’s people.

Translation & textual notes. A burden against Nineveh first unfolds as a theophanic hymn to the Lord's jealous and avenging majesty and then turns that vision into a direct oracle of doom against Assyria. Two themes that govern the rest of the book are held together here: the irresistible force of divine judgment against hostile powers and the Lord's covenantal goodness toward those who wait for him in distress. Storm, flood, and earthquake imagery place Nineveh's downfall within a cosmic frame, while the closing verses begin to separate the fates of oppressor and oppressed by promising the breaking of the yoke and the extinction of Nineveh's name and gods.

Nahum 2 — ΝΑΟΥΜ Β′

Theme. Nineveh falls in siege, plunder, and the collapse of its den.

Outline.

• A · 2:1-3 — Good news for Judah and a warning to the oppressor. A herald of peace speaks to Judah and calls for renewed festival life, then the scene turns abruptly to the invader and the Lord's resolve to reverse Jacob's humiliation.
• B · 2:4-6 — The assault gathers speed in the city. Weapons blaze, chariots race through streets and squares, and nobles rush in confusion to the walls as defensive preparations fail to hold.
• C · 2:7-11 — Nineveh is breached, emptied, and undone. River-gates are opened, the palace collapses, attendants are led away lamenting, the city drains away like a broken pool, and the invaders strip its treasure, leaving only bodily terror and devastation.
• D · 2:12-14 — The lion's den is exposed to divine judgment. Nineveh is mocked as a lion's lair once filled with prey, but the Lord now declares himself against her, consuming her force, cutting off her spoil, and silencing her works.

Translation & textual notes. The prophet's vivid taunt-song over Nineveh's fall moves from good news for Judah into an almost cinematic portrayal of siege, breach, plunder, and desolation. The rhetoric is rapid and imagistic: heraldic announcement, imperative summons, flashing chariots, opened river-gates, fleeing attendants, emptied treasure houses, and the collapse of the Assyrian lion's den. Throughout, the Greek preserves the martial compression while adding a few turns of phrase that heighten public humiliation and irreversible ruin.

Nahum 3 — ΝΑΟΥΜ Γ′

Theme. Nineveh's bloody empire is stripped bare and left incurable.

Outline.

• A · 3:1-4 — The bloody city is exposed as predatory and seductive. Nineveh is denounced as a city of bloodshed, falsehood, and predation, while the sounds of invasion and the imagery of harlotry and sorcery interpret her imperial power as violence disguised as splendor.
• B · 3:5-7 — The Lord uncovers Nineveh before the nations. The Lord announces that he himself will expose Nineveh’s shame, make her a spectacle, and leave her without comforters when all who see her recoil.
• C · 3:8-11 — Even Thebes fell, so Nineveh cannot stand. The prophet invokes the fall of No-Amon and her formidable allies to show that Nineveh too will go into exile, become drunken, and seek refuge in vain.
• D · 3:12-15 — Nineveh’s defenses collapse despite desperate preparations. Her fortresses prove as fragile as ripe figs, her gates are opened, and even frantic efforts at siege preparation cannot keep fire, sword, and devouring swarms away.
• E · 3:16-19 — Merchants, officials, and shepherds vanish, leaving an incurable wound. The city's vast commerce and mixed populations disperse like insects, her rulers fail, her people scatter, and no healing remains for a wound applauded by all her victims.

Translation & textual notes. The oracle against Nineveh is completed by moving from taunt to exposure, from comparison to Thebes, and finally to the irreversible collapse of Assyrian power. Images of bloodshed, prostituting empire, military panic, and locust-like disappearance dominate the scene, and it culminates in the theological claim that Nineveh's wound is incurable because her violence has fallen continually on the nations.

How the data set is organized

• lxx-interlinear/data/nahum{1..3}.json — the durable scholarly content: one JSON object per chapter (reference, titles, text-note, outline, and verses with per-word annotation and per-verse discourse notes). The data set shares the nt-interlinear toolkit and schema with the New Testament volumes.
• lxx-interlinear/ — the LXX data home and index builder; rendering reuses the chapter-agnostic nt-interlinear toolkit (stdlib-only HTML; headless-Chromium PDF). Adding a chapter (or a book) requires no code changes.
• Rendered artifacts — Nahum{1..3}.html and .pdf under lxxsite/Nahum/, linked from its index.html in the Septuagint site root.

The interpretive tiers (syntactic function, semantic force, discourse structure, and the proposed argument outlines) are interpretive by nature; where readings legitimately differ, the more common analysis was generally chosen, and the lexical notes are condensed orientation rather than a substitute for a lexicon (e.g. LEH / Muraoka) or a full commentary.