Numbers 16:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־בְּרִיאָ֞ה יִבְרָ֣א יְהוָ֗ה וּפָצְתָ֨ה הָאֲדָמָ֤ה אֶת־פִּ֙יהָ֙ וּבָלְעָ֤ה אֹתָם֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר לָהֶ֔ם וְיָרְד֥וּ חַיִּ֖ים שְׁאֹ֑לָה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֕ם כִּ֧י נִֽאֲצ֛וּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

But if-a-bərîʾâ yiḇrāʾ YHWH and ûpāṣtâ the-hāʾădāmâ ʾet-her-mouth and ûḇāləʿâ them and ʾet-all-that belongs-to-them, and they-wəyārədû ḥayyîm to-šəʾōlâ, then you-wîdaʿtem that niʾăṣû the-men these ʾet-YHWH

Grammar Details

*bərîʾâ*: noun, feminine singular - creation/new thing
*yiḇrāʾ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will create
*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
*ûpāṣtâ*: waw-conjunctive + Qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she will open
*hāʾădāmâ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the ground
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ûḇāləʿâ*: waw-conjunctive + Qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she will swallow
*wəyārədû*: waw-conjunctive + Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will go down
*ḥayyîm*: adjective, masculine plural - living
*šəʾōlâ*: noun, feminine singular + directional he - to Sheol
*wîdaʿtem*: waw-conjunctive + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you will know
*niʾăṣû*: Piel perfect, 3rd common plural - they have despised

Word Meanings

*bərîʾâ yiḇrāʾ*: creates a creation/does something new/makes a new thing
*ûpāṣtâ*: opens/splits open
*šəʾōlâ*: to Sheol/to the grave/to the pit
*niʾăṣû*: despised/spurned/rejected/provoked

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 55:15 : 15 Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Num 16:33 : 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.
Job 31:3 : 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Isa 28:21 : 21 For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Isa 43:19 : 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
Isa 45:12 : 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.
Jer 31:22 : 22 How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

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