Isaiah 40:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֣ף בַּל־נִטָּ֗עוּ אַ֚ף בַּל־זֹרָ֔עוּ אַ֛ף בַּל־שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ בָּאָ֖רֶץ גִּזְעָ֑ם וְגַם־נָשַׁ֤ף בָּהֶם֙ וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּ וּסְעָרָ֖ה כַּקַּ֥שׁ תִּשָּׂאֵֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

ʾap bal-niṭṭāʿû ʾap bal-zōrāʿû ʾap bal-šōrēš bāʾāreṣ gizʿām wěgam-nāšap bāhem wayyibāšû ûsěʿārāh kaqqaš tiśśāʾēm

Grammar Details

*ʾap*: conjunction - 'indeed'
*bal-niṭṭāʿû*: negative particle + niphal perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they are not planted'
*bal-zōrāʿû*: negative particle + pual perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they are not sown'
*bal-šōrēš*: negative particle + poel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'has not taken root'
*bāʾāreṣ*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - 'in the earth'
*gizʿām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their stem'
*wěgam-nāšap*: conjunction + conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'and also he blows'
*bāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'on them'
*wayyibāšû*: conjunction + qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural - 'and they wither'
*ûsěʿārāh*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - 'and tempest'
*kaqqaš*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - 'like chaff'
*tiśśāʾēm*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'carries them away'

Word Meanings

*ʾap*: indeed/moreover/also/barely
*bal-niṭṭāʿû*: are not planted/are scarcely planted
*bal-zōrāʿû*: are not sown/are scarcely sown
*bal-šōrēš*: has not taken root/is scarcely rooted
*gizʿām*: their stem/their stock/their trunk
*nāšap*: blows/breathes
*wayyibāšû*: they wither/they dry up
*sěʿārāh*: tempest/whirlwind/storm
*qaš*: chaff/stubble/straw
*tiśśāʾēm*: carries them away/sweeps them away

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Referenced Verses

Isa 41:16 : 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Isa 37:7 : 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Jer 22:30 : 30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Jer 23:19 : 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Hos 13:15 : 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
Nah 1:14 : 14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Hag 1:9 : 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Zech 7:14 : 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
Zech 9:14 : 14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
2 Sam 22:16 : 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
1 Kgs 21:21-22 : 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, 22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
2 Kgs 10:11 : 11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
Job 4:9 : 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 15:30-33 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job 18:16-19 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Job 21:18 : 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel{H8799)} the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind{H8799)}, both living, and in his wrath.
Prov 1:27 : 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isa 14:21-22 : 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
Isa 17:11 : 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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.

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