Isaiah 41:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵן־אַתֶּ֣ם מֵאַ֔יִן וּפָעָלְכֶ֖ם מֵאָ֑פַע תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה יִבְחַ֥ר בָּכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Behold-ʾattem mēʾayin ûpāʿālḵem mēʾāpaʿ tôʿēḇâ yiḇḥar bāḵem

Grammar Details

*ʾattem*: pronoun, 2nd person masculine plural - you
*mēʾayin*: preposition + noun - from nothing/less than nothing
*ûpāʿālḵem*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your work
*mēʾāpaʿ*: preposition + noun - from nothingness/worthlessness
*tôʿēḇâ*: noun, feminine singular - abomination
*yiḇḥar*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he chooses
*bāḵem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - in you

Word Meanings

*mēʾayin*: from nothing/less than nothing/worthless
*pāʿālḵem*: your work/deed/action
*mēʾāpaʿ*: from nothingness/worthlessness/emptiness
*tôʿēḇâ*: abomination/detestable thing/abhorrence
*yiḇḥar bāḵem*: chooses you/selects you

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Referenced Verses

Ps 115:8 : 8 They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no {G2087} God but {G3361} one.
Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isa 44:9-9 : 9 They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame. 10 Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Isa 66:24 : 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jer 51:17-18 : 17 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Isa 37:19 : 19 and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
Deut 7:26 : 26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Rev 17:5 : 5 and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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