Isaiah 47:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּ֨ה הָי֤וּ כְקַשׁ֙ אֵ֣שׁ שְׂרָפָ֔תַם לֹֽא־יַצִּ֥ילוּ אֶת־נַפְשָׁ֖ם מִיַּ֣ד לֶֽהָבָ֑ה אֵין־גַּחֶ֣לֶת לַחְמָ֔ם א֖וּר לָשֶׁ֥בֶת נֶגְדּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Behold hāyû like-qēš ʾēš śərāp̄āṯam not-yaṣṣîlû ʾeṯ-nap̄šām from-hand-of lehāḇâ ʾên-gaḥeleṯ laḥmām ʾûr lāšeḇeṯ neḡdô.

Grammar Details

*hāyû*: qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they are/have become
*qēš*: masculine singular noun - stubble/chaff
*ʾēš*: feminine singular noun - fire
*śərāp̄āṯam*: qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - it has burned them
*yaṣṣîlû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will deliver/save
*nap̄šām*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their soul/life
*lehāḇâ*: feminine singular noun - flame
*ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
*gaḥeleṯ*: feminine singular noun - coal
*laḥmām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their bread
*ʾûr*: masculine singular noun - fire/flame
*lāšeḇeṯ*: qal infinitive construct with prefixed preposition - to sit
*neḡdô*: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - before it

Word Meanings

*qēš*: stubble/chaff/straw
*śərāp̄āṯam*: it has burned them/it has consumed them
*nap̄šām*: their soul/their life/themselves
*lehāḇâ*: flame/blaze
*gaḥeleṯ*: coal/ember/burning coal
*laḥmām*: their bread/their food
*ʾûr*: fire/flame/light
*neḡdô*: before it/opposite it/in front of it

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Referenced Verses

Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Matt 10:28 : 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Isa 10:17 : 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isa 41:2 : 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Jer 51:25-26 : 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Jer 51:30 : 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Jer 51:32 : 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Jer 51:58 : 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Ezek 15:7 : 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.
Joel 2:5 : 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Obad 1:18 : 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isa 30:14 : 14 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.
Isa 40:24 : 24 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.
Ps 83:13-15 : 13 O my God, make{H8798)} them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth{H8799)} a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire{H8762)}; 15 So persecute{H8799)} them with thy tempest, and make them afraid{H8762)} with thy storm.
Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Matt 16:26 : 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Rev 18:21 : 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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