Jeremiah 23:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֧ה דְבָרִ֛י כָּאֵ֖שׁ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ יְפֹ֥צֵֽץ סָֽלַע׃ ס

Transliteration

Hălôʾ thus dəbārî like-ʾēš, nəʾum-YHWH, and-like-paṭṭîš yəpōṣēṣ sālaʿ?

Grammar Details

*Hălôʾ*: interrogative particle - is not
*dəbārî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st singular suffix - my word
*ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular - fire
*nəʾum*: noun, masculine singular construct - declaration of
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*paṭṭîš*: noun, masculine singular - hammer
*yəpōṣēṣ*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - shatters/breaks in pieces
*sālaʿ*: noun, masculine singular - rock/cliff

Word Meanings

*dəbārî*: my word/my speech/my message
*ʾēš*: fire/flame
*paṭṭîš*: hammer/sledgehammer
*yəpōṣēṣ*: shatters/breaks in pieces/smashes
*sālaʿ*: rock/cliff/crag

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Referenced Verses

Jer 5:14 : 14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Rev 11:5 : 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
John 6:63 : 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Acts 2:3 : 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
2 Cor 2:16 : 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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