Numbers 16:33
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation."
Word-by-Word Analysis
English grammatical function word ('appertained'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equiva...
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
חָיָה
châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
כָּסָה
kâçâh
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
אָבַד
ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
עֵדָה
ʻêdâh
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
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 →כָּסָה kâçâh
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
Study H3680 →אָבַד ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Study H6 →חָיָה châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Study H2421 →עֵדָה ʻêdâh
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
Study H5712 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →Cross References
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nation...
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that ...
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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