Numbers 16:38

Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data

"The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel."

Word-by-Word Analysis

The

מַחְתָּה

machtâh

H4289

a pan for live coals

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of these

חַטָּא

chaṭṭâʼ

H2400

a criminal, or one accounted guilty

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קִרְאָה

qirʼâh

H7125

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

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their own

נֶפֶשׁ

nephesh

H5315

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...

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שָׁאַר

shâʼar

H7604

properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant

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them

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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them

רָחָב

râchâb

H7342

roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively

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פַּח

pach

H6341

a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)

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for a

מִכְסֶה

mikçeh

H4372

a covering, i.e. weatherboarding

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of the

מִזְבֵּחַ

mizbêach

H4196

an altar

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for they

עָלָה

ʻâlâh

H5927

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

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them

פָּנִים

pânîym

H6440

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...

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the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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כֵּן

kên

H3651

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...

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they are

קָדַשׁ

qâdash

H6942

to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)

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and they shall be a

אוֹת

ʼôwth

H226

a signal (literally or figuratively), as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.

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unto the

בֵּן

bên

H1121

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...

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of

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Yisrâʼêl

H3478

Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

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Key Terms in This Verse

plates H6341

פַּח pach

a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)

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censers H4289

מַחְתָּה machtâh

a pan for live coals

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hallowed H6942

קָדַשׁ qâdash

to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)

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broad H7342

רָחָב râchâb

roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively

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sinners H2400

חַטָּא chaṭṭâʼ

a criminal, or one accounted guilty

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covering H4372

מִכְסֶה mikçeh

a covering, i.e. weatherboarding

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sign H226

אוֹת ʼôwth

a signal (literally or figuratively), as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.

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souls H5315

נֶפֶשׁ nephesh

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

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offered H5927

עָלָה ʻâlâh

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

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altar H4196

מִזְבֵּחַ mizbêach

an altar

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Cross References

Ezekiel 14:8 cross-reference

And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Numbers 26:10 cross-reference

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

2 Peter 2:6 cross-reference

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

Proverbs 20:2 cross-reference

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Habakkuk 2:10 cross-reference

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

1 Kings 2:23 cross-reference

Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

Numbers 17:10 cross-reference

And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

Numbers 16:40 cross-reference

To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD ...

Proverbs 8:36 cross-reference

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

1 Corinthians 10:11 cross-reference

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Proverbs 1:18 cross-reference

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

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