Deuteronomy 32:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־אֵשׁ֙ קָדְחָ֣ה בְאַפִּ֔י וַתִּיקַ֖ד עַד־שְׁא֣וֹל תַּחְתִּ֑ית וַתֹּ֤אכַל אֶ֙רֶץ֙ וִֽיבֻלָ֔הּ וַתְּלַהֵ֖ט מוֹסְדֵ֥י הָרִֽים׃

Transliteration

For ʾēš qāḏəḥāh in-ʾappî, wattîqaḏ unto-šəʾôl taḥtît; wattōʾḵal ʾereṣ and-yəḇulāh, wattəlahēṭ môsəḏê hārîm.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʾēš*: noun, feminine, singular - fire
• *qāḏəḥāh*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - has kindled/ignited
• *bə*: preposition - in
• *ʾappî*: noun, masculine, singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my nostril/anger
• *wattîqaḏ*: verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - and it burns
• *ʿaḏ*: preposition - unto/to
• *šəʾôl*: noun, feminine, singular - Sheol/underworld
• *taḥtît*: adjective, feminine, singular - lowest/nethermost
• *wattōʾḵal*: verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - and it consumes
• *ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine, singular - earth/land
• *wî*: conjunction - and
• *yəḇulāh*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - its produce/yield
• *wattəlahēṭ*: verb, piel imperfect consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - and it sets aflame
• *môsəḏê*: noun, masculine, plural construct - foundations of
• *hārîm*: noun, masculine, plural - mountains

Word Meanings

• *ʾēš*: fire/flame
• *qāḏəḥāh*: kindled/ignited/blazed
• *ʾappî*: my nostril/my anger/my wrath
• *šəʾôl*: Sheol/underworld/grave
• *taḥtît*: lowest/deepest/nethermost
• *yəḇulāh*: its produce/yield/increase
• *môsəḏê*: foundations/bases

Referenced Verses

• Lam 4:11 : 11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
• Jer 15:14 : 14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
• Jer 17:4 : 4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
• Isa 24:19-20 : 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
• Num 16:35 : 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
• Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered{H8689)} my soul from the lowest hell.
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
• Mic 1:4 : 4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
• Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
• Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
• Mal 4:1-2 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Matt 10:28 : 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Matt 18:9 : 9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
• Matt 23:33 : 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
• Mark 9:43-48 : 43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
• Ps 97:3 : 3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
• Ps 144:5 : 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
• Isa 24:6 : 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
• Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
• Job 9:5-6 : 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
• Ps 18:7-8 : 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
• Ps 21:9 : 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
• Ps 46:2 : 2 Therefore will not we fear{H8799)}, though the earth be removed{H8687)}, and though the mountains be carried{H8800)} into the midst of the sea;
• Ps 83:14 : 14 As the fire burneth{H8799)} a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire{H8762)};
• 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.
• Isa 54:10 : 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
• Isa 66:15-16 : 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
• Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• Lam 2:3 : 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
• Ezek 36:5 : 5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.