Isaiah 30:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּשְׁבָרָהּ כְּשֵׁבֶר נֵבֶל יוֹצְרִים כָּתוּת לֹא יַחְמֹל וְלֹא־יִמָּצֵא בִמְכִתָּתוֹ חֶרֶשׂ לַחְתּוֹת אֵשׁ מִיָּקוּד וְלַחְשֹׂף מַיִם מִגֶּבֶא׃

Transliteration

And its šebārāh like the šēber of a nēbel of yôṣerîm, kātût without yaḥmōl; and not yimmāṣēʾ in its meḵittātô a ḥeres to scoop up fire from yāqûd, or to draw water from gebeʾ.

Grammar Details

*šebārāh*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - he broke it
*šēber*: masculine singular construct - breaking of
*nēbel*: masculine singular construct - vessel/jar of
*yôṣerîm*: qal participle masculine plural - potters
*kātût*: qal passive participle masculine singular - crushed/shattered
*yaḥmōl*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will spare/pity
*yimmāṣēʾ*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it will be found
*meḵittātô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its fragments
*ḥeres*: masculine singular noun - pottery shard
*yāqûd*: masculine singular noun - hearth/fire
*gebeʾ*: masculine singular noun - cistern/pool

Word Meanings

*šebārāh*: he broke it/shattered it
*šēber*: breaking/shattering/fracture of
*nēbel*: vessel/jar/pitcher of
*yôṣerîm*: potters/creators/makers
*kātût*: crushed/shattered/broken to pieces
*yaḥmōl*: he will spare/pity/have compassion
*yimmāṣēʾ*: it will be found/discovered/present
*meḵittātô*: its fragments/broken pieces/rubble
*ḥeres*: pottery shard/piece of broken pottery
*yāqûd*: hearth/fire/burning
*gebeʾ*: cistern/pool/water reservoir

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Referenced Verses

Ps 2:9 : 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Jer 19:10-11 : 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 11 and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
Rom 11:21 : 21 for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
2 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Rev 2:27 : 27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father:
Deut 29:20 : 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Job 27:22 : 22 For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
Ps 31:12 : 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Isa 47:14 : 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
Jer 48:38 : 38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.
Ezek 5:11 : 11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish [thee]; neither shall mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
Ezek 7:4 : 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezek 7:9 : 9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring upon thee according to thy ways; and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do smite.
Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Ezek 9:10 : 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.
Ezek 15:3-8 : 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work! 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the vine - tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them. 8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezek 24:14 : 14 I, Jehovah, have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Luke 4:2 : 2 during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing {G3762} in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.
Rom 8:32 : 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

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