Ezekiel 15:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּ֥ה לָאֵ֖שׁ נִתַּ֣ן לְאָכְלָ֑ה אֵת֩ שְׁנֵ֨י קְצוֹתָ֜יו אָכְלָ֤ה הָאֵשׁ֙ וְתוֹכ֣וֹ נָחָ֔ר הֲיִצְלַ֖ח לִמְלָאכָֽה׃

Transliteration

Hinnēh to ʾēš nittan for ʾāḵəlāh; ʾēṯ two qəṣôṯāyw ʾāḵəlāh the ʾēš and ṯôḵô nāḥār. Is yiṣlaḥ for məlāʾḵāh?

Grammar Details

*hinnēh*: interjection - behold/look
*ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular - fire
*nittan*: niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is given
*ʾāḵəlāh*: qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - consumed
*ʾēṯ*: direct object marker
*qəṣôṯāyw*: noun, feminine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its ends
*ṯôḵô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its middle
*nāḥār*: niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is scorched/burned
*yiṣlaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will succeed/be useful
*məlāʾḵāh*: noun, feminine singular - work/craft

Word Meanings

*hinnēh*: behold/lo/see
*ʾēš*: fire/flame
*ʾāḵəlāh*: food/fuel/consumption
*nāḥār*: is scorched/burned/charred
*yiṣlaḥ*: will succeed/prosper/be useful

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Referenced Verses

John 15:6 : 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Ezek 19:14 : 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Mal 4:1 : 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.
Matt 3:12 : 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Ps 80:16 : 16 It is burned{H8803)} with fire, it is cut down{H8803)}: they perish{H8799)} at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Isa 1:31 : 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

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