2 Kings 23:7
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁבַר
shâbar
to burst (literally or figuratively)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
קָדֵשׁ
qâdêsh
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
English grammatical function word ('wove'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in...
קֶלַע
qelaʻ
a sling; also a (door) screen (as if slung across), or the valve (of the door) itself
אֲשֵׁרָה
ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('wove'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are requi...
Study GRAM →קָדֵשׁ qâdêsh
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
Study H6945 →אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Study H842 →קֶלַע qelaʻ
a sling; also a (door) screen (as if slung across), or the valve (of the door) itself
Study H7050 →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →Cross References
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And al...
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
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