Isaiah 34:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנֶהֶפְכ֤וּ נְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙ לְזֶ֔פֶת וַעֲפָרָ֖הּ לְגָפְרִ֑ית וְהָיְתָ֣ה אַרְצָ֔הּ לְזֶ֖פֶת בֹּעֵרָֽה׃

Transliteration

wĕnehepkû nĕḥālêhā lĕzepet waʿăpārāh lĕgāprît wĕhāyĕtâ ʾarṣāh lĕzepet bōʿērâ

Grammar Details

*wĕnehepkû*: conjunction + niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will be turned/changed
*nĕḥālêhā*: masculine plural noun + 3rd feminine singular suffix - its streams
*lĕzepet*: preposition + feminine singular noun - to pitch/tar
*waʿăpārāh*: conjunction + masculine singular noun + 3rd feminine singular suffix - and its dust/soil
*lĕgāprît*: preposition + feminine singular noun - to sulfur/brimstone
*wĕhāyĕtâ*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it will be/become
*ʾarṣāh*: feminine singular noun + 3rd feminine singular suffix - its land
*bōʿērâ*: qal participle, feminine singular - burning

Word Meanings

*nehepkû*: will be turned/will be changed/will be transformed
*nĕḥālêhā*: its streams/its wadis/its valleys
*zepet*: pitch/tar/bitumen
*ʿăpārāh*: its dust/its soil/its dirt
*gāprît*: sulfur/brimstone
*hāyĕtâ*: will be/will become/will happen
*ʾarṣāh*: its land/its territory/its earth
*bōʿērâ*: burning/blazing/consuming

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Referenced Verses

Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
Luke 17:29 : 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Job 18:15 : 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Gen 19:28 : 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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