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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Isaiah 9:18 - Forest
Isaiah 9:18 - 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.
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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For | H3588 | כִּי |
[Conjunction] (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed |
wickedness | H7564 | רִשְׁעָה |
[Noun Feminine] wrong (especially moral) |
burneth | H1197 | בָּעַר |
[Verb] to {kindle} that {is} consume (by fire or by eating); also (as denominative from H1198) to be (become) brutish |
as the fire | H784 | אֵשׁ |
[Noun Feminine] fire (literally or figuratively) |
it shall devour | H398 | אָכַל |
[Verb] to eat (literally or figuratively) |
the briers | H8068 | שָׁמִיר |
[Noun Masculine] a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a {gem} probably the diamond |
and thorns | H7898 | שַׁיִת |
[Noun Masculine] scrub or {trash} that {is} wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field) |
and shall kindle | H3341 | יָצַת |
[Verb] to burn or set on fire; figuratively to desolate |
in the thickets | H5442 | סְבָךְ |
[Noun Masculine] a copse |
of the forest | H3293 | יַעַר |
[Noun Masculine] a copse of bushes; hence a forest; hence honey in the comb (as hived in trees) |
and they shall mount up | H55 | אָבַךְ |
[Verb] probably to coil upward |
like the lifting up | H55 | אָבַךְ |
[Verb] probably to coil upward |
of smoke | H6227 | עָשָׁן |
[Noun Masculine] {smoke} literally or figuratively ({vapor } {dust } anger) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.