Isaiah 41:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵן־אַתֶּ֣ם מֵאַ֔יִן וּפָעָלְכֶ֖ם מֵאָ֑פַע תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה יִבְחַ֥ר בָּכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Behold-ʾattem mēʾayin ûpāʿālḵem mēʾāpaʿ tôʿēḇâ yiḇḥar bāḵem

Grammar Details

*ʾattem*: pronoun, 2nd person masculine plural - you
*mēʾayin*: preposition + noun - from nothing/less than nothing
*ûpāʿālḵem*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your work
*mēʾāpaʿ*: preposition + noun - from nothingness/worthlessness
*tôʿēḇâ*: noun, feminine singular - abomination
*yiḇḥar*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he chooses
*bāḵem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - in you

Word Meanings

*mēʾayin*: from nothing/less than nothing/worthless
*pāʿālḵem*: your work/deed/action
*mēʾāpaʿ*: from nothingness/worthlessness/emptiness
*tôʿēḇâ*: abomination/detestable thing/abhorrence
*yiḇḥar bāḵem*: chooses you/selects you

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Referenced Verses

Ps 115:8 : 8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
1 Cor 8:4 : 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
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 66:24 : 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jer 51:17-18 : 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Isa 37:19 : 19 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.
Deut 7:26 : 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Rev 17:5 : 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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