Isaiah 34:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנֶהֶפְכ֤וּ נְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙ לְזֶ֔פֶת וַעֲפָרָ֖הּ לְגָפְרִ֑ית וְהָיְתָ֣ה אַרְצָ֔הּ לְזֶ֖פֶת בֹּעֵרָֽה׃

Transliteration

wĕnehepkû nĕḥālêhā lĕzepet waʿăpārāh lĕgāprît wĕhāyĕtâ ʾarṣāh lĕzepet bōʿērâ

Grammar Details

*wĕnehepkû*: conjunction + niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will be turned/changed
*nĕḥālêhā*: masculine plural noun + 3rd feminine singular suffix - its streams
*lĕzepet*: preposition + feminine singular noun - to pitch/tar
*waʿăpārāh*: conjunction + masculine singular noun + 3rd feminine singular suffix - and its dust/soil
*lĕgāprît*: preposition + feminine singular noun - to sulfur/brimstone
*wĕhāyĕtâ*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it will be/become
*ʾarṣāh*: feminine singular noun + 3rd feminine singular suffix - its land
*bōʿērâ*: qal participle, feminine singular - burning

Word Meanings

*nehepkû*: will be turned/will be changed/will be transformed
*nĕḥālêhā*: its streams/its wadis/its valleys
*zepet*: pitch/tar/bitumen
*ʿăpārāh*: its dust/its soil/its dirt
*gāprît*: sulfur/brimstone
*hāyĕtâ*: will be/will become/will happen
*ʾarṣāh*: its land/its territory/its earth
*bōʿērâ*: burning/blazing/consuming

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Referenced Verses

Deut 29:23 : 23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Luke 17:29 : 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like {G5125} manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, {G1722} wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:
Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
Job 18:15 : 15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Gen 19:28 : 28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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