1 Samuel 12:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹ֖א תָּס֑וּרוּ כִּ֣י ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַתֹּ֗הוּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יוֹעִ֛ילוּ וְלֹ֥א יַצִּ֖ילוּ כִּי־תֹ֥הוּ הֵֽמָּה׃

Transliteration

wə-lōʾ tāsûrû kî ʾaḥărê ha-tōhû ʾăšer lōʾ-yôʿîlû wə-lōʾ yaṣṣîlû kî-tōhû hēmmāh

Grammar Details

*wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and do not
*tāsûrû*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - turn aside
*kî*: conjunction - for/after
*ʾaḥărê*: preposition - after
*ha-tōhû*: definite article + noun masculine singular - the emptiness
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
*lōʾ*-*yôʿîlû*: negative particle + hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - do not profit
*yaṣṣîlû*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - deliver
*kî*-*tōhû*: conjunction + noun masculine singular - for emptiness
*hēmmāh*: 3rd person masculine plural independent pronoun - they are

Word Meanings

*tāsûrû*: turn aside/depart/deviate
*ha-tōhû*: the emptiness/vanity/worthless things/idols
*yôʿîlû*: profit/benefit/help
*yaṣṣîlû*: deliver/rescue/save
*tōhû*: emptiness/vanity/nothingness

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Referenced Verses

Hab 2:18 : 18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jer 16:19 : 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
1 Cor 8:4 : 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Deut 11:16 : 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deut 32:21 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Isa 41:23-24 : 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isa 44:9-9 : 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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