Numbers 16:32
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
פָּתַח
pâthach
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
פֶּה
peh
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos...
בֶּלַע
belaʻ
a gulp; figuratively, destruction
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
English grammatical function word ('appertained'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equiva...
קֹרַח
Qôrach
Korach, the name of two Edomites and three Israelites
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('appertained'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they ar...
Study GRAM →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →פָּתַח pâthach
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
Study H6605 →פֶּה peh
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
Study H6310 →Cross References
Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that w...
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men hav...
Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
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