Deuteronomy 32:22
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חָרָה
chârâh
to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
תַּחְתִּי
tachtîy
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
שְׁאוֹל
shᵉʼôwl
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
כָּלָה
kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
תְּבוּאָה
tᵉbûwʼâh
income, i.e. produce (literally or figuratively)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
הַר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
תַּחְתִּי tachtîy
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
Study H8482 →שְׁאוֹל shᵉʼôwl
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
Study H7585 →כָּלָה kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Study H3615 →חָרָה chârâh
to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy
Study H2734 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →Cross References
The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine ange...
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, 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 upon them mine indignation...
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
For our God is a consuming fire.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot ...
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
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...
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because...
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with t...
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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