Isaiah 40:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֣ף בַּל־נִטָּ֗עוּ אַ֚ף בַּל־זֹרָ֔עוּ אַ֛ף בַּל־שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ בָּאָ֖רֶץ גִּזְעָ֑ם וְגַם־נָשַׁ֤ף בָּהֶם֙ וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּ וּסְעָרָ֖ה כַּקַּ֥שׁ תִּשָּׂאֵֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

ʾap bal-niṭṭāʿû ʾap bal-zōrāʿû ʾap bal-šōrēš bāʾāreṣ gizʿām wěgam-nāšap bāhem wayyibāšû ûsěʿārāh kaqqaš tiśśāʾēm

Grammar Details

• *ʾap*: conjunction - 'indeed'
• *bal-niṭṭāʿû*: negative particle + niphal perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they are not planted'
• *bal-zōrāʿû*: negative particle + pual perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they are not sown'
• *bal-šōrēš*: negative particle + poel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'has not taken root'
• *bāʾāreṣ*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - 'in the earth'
• *gizʿām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their stem'
• *wěgam-nāšap*: conjunction + conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'and also he blows'
• *bāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'on them'
• *wayyibāšû*: conjunction + qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural - 'and they wither'
• *ûsěʿārāh*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - 'and tempest'
• *kaqqaš*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - 'like chaff'
• *tiśśāʾēm*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'carries them away'

Word Meanings

• *ʾap*: indeed/moreover/also/barely
• *bal-niṭṭāʿû*: are not planted/are scarcely planted
• *bal-zōrāʿû*: are not sown/are scarcely sown
• *bal-šōrēš*: has not taken root/is scarcely rooted
• *gizʿām*: their stem/their stock/their trunk
• *nāšap*: blows/breathes
• *wayyibāšû*: they wither/they dry up
• *sěʿārāh*: tempest/whirlwind/storm
• *qaš*: chaff/stubble/straw
• *tiśśāʾēm*: carries them away/sweeps them away

Referenced Verses

• Isa 41:16 : 16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
• Isa 37:7 : 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
• Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.
• Jer 22:30 : 30 Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
• Jer 23:19 : 19 Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
• Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
• Hos 13:15 : 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness; and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall make spoil of the treasure of all goodly vessels.
• Nah 1:14 : 14 And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
• Hag 1:9 : 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.
• Zech 7:14 : 14 but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
• Zech 9:14 : 14 And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
• 2 Sam 22:16 : 16 Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
• 1 Kgs 21:21-22 : 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, {H7023} and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel: 22 and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and hast made Israel to sin.
• 2 Kgs 10:11 : 11 So Jehu smote all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
• Job 4:9 : 9 By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed.
• Job 15:30-33 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away. 31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense. 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
• Job 18:16-19 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. 19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
• Job 21:18 : 18 That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
• Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
• Prov 1:27 : 27 When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
• Isa 11:4 : 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• Isa 14:21-22 : 21 Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. 22 And I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah.
• Isa 17:11 : 11 In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
• Isa 30:33 : 33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.