Isaiah 30:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּשְׁבָרָהּ כְּשֵׁבֶר נֵבֶל יוֹצְרִים כָּתוּת לֹא יַחְמֹל וְלֹא־יִמָּצֵא בִמְכִתָּתוֹ חֶרֶשׂ לַחְתּוֹת אֵשׁ מִיָּקוּד וְלַחְשֹׂף מַיִם מִגֶּבֶא׃

Transliteration

And its šebārāh like the šēber of a nēbel of yôṣerîm, kātût without yaḥmōl; and not yimmāṣēʾ in its meḵittātô a ḥeres to scoop up fire from yāqûd, or to draw water from gebeʾ.

Grammar Details

*šebārāh*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - he broke it
*šēber*: masculine singular construct - breaking of
*nēbel*: masculine singular construct - vessel/jar of
*yôṣerîm*: qal participle masculine plural - potters
*kātût*: qal passive participle masculine singular - crushed/shattered
*yaḥmōl*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will spare/pity
*yimmāṣēʾ*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it will be found
*meḵittātô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its fragments
*ḥeres*: masculine singular noun - pottery shard
*yāqûd*: masculine singular noun - hearth/fire
*gebeʾ*: masculine singular noun - cistern/pool

Word Meanings

*šebārāh*: he broke it/shattered it
*šēber*: breaking/shattering/fracture of
*nēbel*: vessel/jar/pitcher of
*yôṣerîm*: potters/creators/makers
*kātût*: crushed/shattered/broken to pieces
*yaḥmōl*: he will spare/pity/have compassion
*yimmāṣēʾ*: it will be found/discovered/present
*meḵittātô*: its fragments/broken pieces/rubble
*ḥeres*: pottery shard/piece of broken pottery
*yāqûd*: hearth/fire/burning
*gebeʾ*: cistern/pool/water reservoir

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Referenced Verses

Ps 2:9 : 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Jer 19:10-11 : 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
Rom 11:21 : 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
2 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Rev 2:27 : 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
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 27:22 : 22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Ps 31:12 : 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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.
Isa 47:14 : 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Jer 48:38 : 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
Ezek 5:11 : 11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
Ezek 7:4 : 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 7:9 : 9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Ezek 9:10 : 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Ezek 15:3-8 : 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 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? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. 8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezek 24:14 : 14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Luke 4:2 : 2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Rom 8:32 : 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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