Isaiah 37:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתֹ֥ן אֶת־אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם בָּאֵ֑שׁ כִּי֩ לֹ֨א אֱלֹהִ֜ים הֵ֗מָּה כִּ֣י אִם־מַעֲשֵׂ֧ה יְדֵֽי־אָדָ֛ם עֵ֥ץ וָאֶ֖בֶן וַֽיְאַבְּדֽוּם׃

Transliteration

wə-nātōn ʾet-ʾĕlōhêhem bā-ʾēš, for no ʾĕlōhîm hēmmāh, for if-maʿăśēh yədê-ʾādām, ʿēṣ wā-ʾeben, wayəʾabbədûm.

Grammar Details

*wə-nātōn*: conjunction + verb, qal infinitive absolute - and giving/putting
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ʾĕlōhêhem*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3mp suffix - their gods
*bā-ʾēš*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - in the fire
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - gods/God
*hēmmāh*: pronoun, 3rd person masculine plural - they
*maʿăśēh*: noun, masculine singular construct - work/product of
*yədê*: noun, feminine dual construct - hands of
*ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular - man/humanity
*ʿēṣ*: noun, masculine singular - wood/tree
*wā-ʾeben*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and stone
*wayəʾabbədûm*: conjunction + verb, piel imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with 3mp suffix - and they destroyed them

Word Meanings

*nātōn*: giving/putting/placing
*ʾĕlōhîm*: gods/God/divine beings
*maʿăśēh*: work/product/handiwork
*ʾādām*: man/humanity/mankind
*ʿēṣ*: wood/tree/timber
*ʾeben*: stone/rock
*wayəʾabbədûm*: destroyed them/annihilated them/caused them to perish

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Referenced Verses

Exod 32:20 : 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
2 Sam 5:21 : 21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
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 10:9-9 : 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Isa 26:14 : 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Isa 36:18-20 : 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
Isa 40:19-21 : 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isa 41:7 : 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Isa 41:24 : 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?
Isa 44:17 : 17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Isa 46:1-2 : 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Jer 10:3-6 : 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Jer 10:11 : 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Hos 8:6 : 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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