Isaiah 27:4

Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data

"Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together."

Word-by-Word Analysis

חֵמָה

chêmâh

H2534

heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)

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is not in me who would

שׂוּם

sûwm

H7760

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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the

סָרָב

çârâb

H5621

a thistle

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and

צָנִין

tsânîyn

H6796

a thorn

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קִרְאָה

qirʼâh

H7125

an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)

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me in

מִלְחָמָה

milchâmâh

H4421

a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)

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I would

יָלַךְ

yâlak

H3212

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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עָבַר

ʻâbar

H5674

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...

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them I would

שָׂרַף

sâraph

H8313

to be (causatively, set) on fire

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them

יַחַד

yachad

H3162

properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly

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Key Terms in This Verse

briers H5621

סָרָב çârâb

a thistle

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thorns H6796

צָנִין tsânîyn

a thorn

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Fury H2534

חֵמָה chêmâh

heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)

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burn H8313

שָׂרַף sâraph

to be (causatively, set) on fire

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battle H4421

מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh

a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)

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through H5674

עָבַר ʻâbar

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)

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together H3162

יַחַד yachad

properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly

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set H7760

שׂוּם sûwm

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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go H3212

יָלַךְ yâlak

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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against H7125

קִרְאָה qirʼâh

an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)

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Cross References

Hebrews 6:8 cross-reference

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

Isaiah 10:17 cross-reference

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Matthew 3:12 cross-reference

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Psalm 85:3 cross-reference

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

2 Samuel 23:6 cross-reference

But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

Isaiah 12:1 cross-reference

And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

Ezekiel 16:63 cross-reference

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

2 Peter 2:9 cross-reference

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Psalm 103:9 cross-reference

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

Malachi 4:3 cross-reference

And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 9:18 cross-reference

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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