Joel 2:31

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ יֵהָפֵ֣ךְ לְחֹ֔שֶׁךְ וְהַיָּרֵ֖חַ לְדָ֑ם לִפְנֵ֗י בּ֚וֹא י֣וֹם יְהוָ֔ה הַגָּד֖וֹל וְהַנּוֹרָֽא׃

Transliteration

The-shemesh yēhāfēkh to-ḥōshekh and-the-yārēaḥ to-dām before bôʾ yôm YHWH the-gādôl and-the-nôrāʾ.

Grammar Details

*shemesh*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the sun
*yēhāfēkh*: niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will be turned/changed
*ḥōshekh*: masculine singular noun - darkness
*yārēaḥ*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the moon
*dām*: masculine singular noun - blood
*bôʾ*: qal infinitive construct - coming of
*yôm*: masculine singular construct - day of
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*gādôl*: masculine singular adjective with definite article - the great
*nôrāʾ*: niphal participle, masculine singular with definite article - the dreadful/feared

Word Meanings

*yēhāfēkh*: will be turned/changed/transformed
*ḥōshekh*: darkness/obscurity
*dām*: blood/bloodshed
*gādôl*: great/mighty/important
*nôrāʾ*: dreadful/feared/awesome/terrible

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Referenced Verses

Joel 2:10 : 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Mal 4:5 : 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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:
Rev 6:12-13 : 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.
Joel 3:15 : 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Zeph 1:14-16 : 14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
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.
Isa 13:9-9 : 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isa 34:4-5 : 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Joel 3:1 : 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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.
Luke 21:25 : 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;

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