Isaiah 33:12
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
מִשְׂרָפָה
misrâphâh
combustion, i.e. cremation (of a corpse), or calcination (of lime)
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
Key Terms in This Verse
מִשְׂרָפָה misrâphâh
combustion, i.e. cremation (of a corpse), or calcination (of lime)
Study H4955 →עַם ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Study H5971 →Cross References
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.
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.
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
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;
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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