Deuteronomy 4:24

Webster's Bible (1833)

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֵ֥שׁ אֹכְלָ֖ה ה֑וּא אֵ֖ל קַנָּֽא׃ פ

Transliteration

kî YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā ʾēš ʾōkəlāh hûʾ ʾēl qannāʾ.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
• *ʾēš*: feminine singular noun - fire
• *ʾōkəlāh*: Qal participle, feminine singular - consuming
• *hûʾ*: 3rd masculine singular pronoun - he
• *ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God
• *qannāʾ*: adjective, masculine singular - jealous

Word Meanings

• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine beings
• *ʾēš*: fire/flame
• *ʾōkəlāh*: consuming/devouring/eating
• *ʾēl*: God/deity/divine being
• *qannāʾ*: jealous/zealous/passionate

Referenced Verses

• Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
• Deut 9:3 : 3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
• Exod 24:17 : 17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
• Exod 20:5 : 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Deut 6:15 : 15 for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
• Exod 34:14 : 14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
• Nah 1:2 : 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
• Nah 1:6 : 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
• Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
• Deut 29:20 : 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
• Isa 33:14 : 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?
• Isa 42:8 : 8 I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to engraved images.
• Jer 21:12-14 : 12 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? 14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
• Deut 32:16 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
• Deut 32:21-22 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• Ps 21:9 : 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
• Ps 78:58 : 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
• Isa 30:27 : 27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
• Isa 30:33 : 33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
• 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• Deut 5:9 : 9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;