Leviticus 10:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתֵּ֥צֵא אֵ֛שׁ מִלִּפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה וַתֹּ֣אכַל אוֹתָ֑ם וַיָּמֻ֖תוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

And-wə-tēṣēʾ ʾēš from-before YHWH and-wə-tōʾḵal them and-wə-yāmuṯû before YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wə-tēṣēʾ*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it went out/came forth
• *ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular, absolute - fire
• *wə-tōʾḵal*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it consumed/devoured
• *wə-yāmuṯû*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they died

Word Meanings

• *ʾēš*: fire/flame
• *tōʾḵal*: consumed/devoured/ate

Referenced Verses

• Num 26:61 : 61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.
• Num 16:35 : 35 And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
• Lev 9:24 : 24 And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Num 3:3-4 : 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 4 And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.
• 2 Sam 6:7 : 7 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
• 2 Kgs 1:10 : 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 2 Kgs 1:12 : 12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 1 Chr 13:10 : 10 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God.
• 1 Chr 15:13 : 13 For because ye [bare it] not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.
• 1 Chr 24:2 : 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
• 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.
• Acts 5:5 : 5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it.
• Acts 5:10 : 10 And she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up the ghost: and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
• Num 16:32-33 : 32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
• Lev 10:5 : 5 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.
• Lev 16:1 : 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah, and died;
• Num 16:49 : 49 Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
• 1 Sam 6:19 : 19 And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, [and] fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.