Numbers 31:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כָּל־דָּבָ֞ר אֲשֶׁר־יָבֹ֣א בָאֵ֗שׁ תַּעֲבִ֤ירוּ בָאֵשׁ֙ וְטָהֵ֔ר אַ֕ךְ בְּמֵ֥י נִדָּ֖ה יִתְחַטָּ֑א וְכֹ֨ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יָבֹ֛א בָּאֵ֖שׁ תַּעֲבִ֥ירוּ בַמָּֽיִם׃

Transliteration

Every-dābār which-yābōʾ in-the-ʾēš taʿăbîrû in-the-ʾēš and-be-ṭāhēr, only in-mê niddāh yitḥaṭṭāʾ; and-all which not-yābōʾ in-the-ʾēš taʿăbîrû in-the-māyim.

Grammar Details

• *dābār*: masculine singular noun - thing/matter/word
• *yābōʾ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will come/enter
• *ʾēš*: feminine singular noun with definite article - fire
• *taʿăbîrû*: Hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you shall pass through/transfer
• *ṭāhēr*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be clean/pure
• *mê*: masculine plural construct noun - waters of
• *niddāh*: feminine singular noun - impurity/separation
• *yitḥaṭṭāʾ*: Hithpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be purified
• *māyim*: masculine plural noun with definite article - water

Word Meanings

• *dābār*: thing/matter/word/object
• *taʿăbîrû*: pass through/transfer/cause to pass
• *niddāh*: impurity/separation/menstruation/ceremonial impurity
• *yitḥaṭṭāʾ*: be purified/cleanse itself/be decontaminated

Referenced Verses

• Num 19:9 : 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
• Num 19:17 : 17 And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
• 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.
• Eph 5:26 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
• 1 Pet 4:12 : 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:
• Rev 3:18 : 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
• Isa 43:2 : 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
• Mal 2:2-3 : 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.
• Matt 3:11 : 11 I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and [in] fire:
• Lev 11:32 : 32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.
• Lev 15:17 : 17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
• Num 8:7 : 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.