Ezekiel 15:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּ֥ה לָאֵ֖שׁ נִתַּ֣ן לְאָכְלָ֑ה אֵת֩ שְׁנֵ֨י קְצוֹתָ֜יו אָכְלָ֤ה הָאֵשׁ֙ וְתוֹכ֣וֹ נָחָ֔ר הֲיִצְלַ֖ח לִמְלָאכָֽה׃

Transliteration

Hinnēh to ʾēš nittan for ʾāḵəlāh; ʾēṯ two qəṣôṯāyw ʾāḵəlāh the ʾēš and ṯôḵô nāḥār. Is yiṣlaḥ for məlāʾḵāh?

Grammar Details

*hinnēh*: interjection - behold/look
*ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular - fire
*nittan*: niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is given
*ʾāḵəlāh*: qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - consumed
*ʾēṯ*: direct object marker
*qəṣôṯāyw*: noun, feminine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its ends
*ṯôḵô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its middle
*nāḥār*: niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is scorched/burned
*yiṣlaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will succeed/be useful
*məlāʾḵāh*: noun, feminine singular - work/craft

Word Meanings

*hinnēh*: behold/lo/see
*ʾēš*: fire/flame
*ʾāḵəlāh*: food/fuel/consumption
*nāḥār*: is scorched/burned/charred
*yiṣlaḥ*: will succeed/prosper/be useful

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

John 15:6 : 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Ezek 19:14 : 14 And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Matt 3:12 : 12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
Ps 80:16 : 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Isa 1:31 : 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

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