Leviticus 10:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

📖 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 the LORD.
• Num 16:35 : 35 ¶ And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
• Lev 9:24 : 24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: [which] when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Num 3:3-4 : 3 These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
• 2 Sam 6:7 : 7 And the anger of the LORD 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, then 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 the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
• 1 Chr 15:13 : 13 For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
• 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 Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, 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 on all them that heard these things.
• Acts 5:10 : 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying [her] forth, buried [her] by her husband.
• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
• Num 16:32-33 : 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all [their] goods. 33 They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
• Lev 10:5 : 5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
• Lev 16:1 : 1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
• Num 16:49 : 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
• 1 Sam 6:19 : 19 ¶ And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.