Leviticus 10:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתֵּ֥צֵא אֵ֛שׁ מִלִּפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה וַתֹּ֣אכַל אוֹתָ֑ם וַיָּמֻ֖תוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

And-wə-tēṣēʾ ʾēš from-before YHWH and-wə-tōʾḵal them and-wə-yāmuṯû before YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wə-tēṣēʾ*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it went out/came forth
• *ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular, absolute - fire
• *wə-tōʾḵal*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and it consumed/devoured
• *wə-yāmuṯû*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they died

Word Meanings

• *ʾēš*: fire/flame
• *tōʾḵal*: consumed/devoured/ate

Referenced Verses

• Num 26:61 : 61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
• Num 16:35 : 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
• Lev 9:24 : 24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Num 3:3-4 : 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
• 2 Sam 6:7 : 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
• 2 Kgs 1:10 : 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 2 Kgs 1:12 : 12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 1 Chr 13:10 : 10 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
• 1 Chr 15:13 : 13 For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
• 1 Chr 24:2 : 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
• Isa 30:33 : 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
• Acts 5:5 : 5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
• Acts 5:10 : 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
• Num 16:32-33 : 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
• Lev 10:5 : 5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
• Lev 16:1 : 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
• Num 16:49 : 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
• 1 Sam 6:19 : 19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.