Joel 2:30

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָֽתַתִּי֙ מֽוֹפְתִ֔ים בַּשָּׁמַ֖יִם וּבָאָ֑רֶץ דָּ֣ם וָאֵ֔שׁ וְתִֽימֲר֖וֹת עָשָֽׁן׃

Transliteration

And-nātattî môfetîm in-the-shāmayim and-in-the-ʾārets dām and-ʾēsh and-tîmărôt ʿāshān.

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I will give/place
• *môfetîm*: masculine plural noun - wonders/signs
• *shāmayim*: masculine dual noun with definite article - the heavens
• *ʾārets*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth
• *dām*: masculine singular noun - blood
• *ʾēsh*: feminine singular noun - fire
• *tîmărôt*: feminine plural construct - columns of
• *ʿāshān*: masculine singular noun - smoke

Word Meanings

• *nātattî*: I will give/place/put/show
• *môfetîm*: wonders/signs/portents
• *dām*: blood/bloodshed
• *tîmărôt*: columns of/pillars of

Referenced Verses

• Luke 21:11 : 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
• Luke 21:25-26 : 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
• Matt 24:29 : 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Acts 2:19-20 : 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
• Rev 6:12-17 : 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
• Rev 18:9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
• Rev 18:18 : 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
• Gen 19:28 : 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
• Josh 8:20 : 20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
• Judg 20:38 : 38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
• Judg 20:40 : 40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
• Song 3:6 : 6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
• Mark 13:24-25 : 24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.