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Genesis 19

Gen. 19:26 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But his wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
looked back
nabat (Hebrew #5027)
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
KJV usage: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.
Pronounce: naw-bat'
Origin: a primitive root
from behind him
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
, and she becameq a pillar
ntsiyb (Hebrew #5333)
from 5324; something stationary, i.e. a prefect, a military post, a statue
KJV usage: garrison, officer, pillar.
Pronounce: nets-eeb'
Origin: or ntsib {nets-eeb'}
of salt
melach (Hebrew #4417)
properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved
KJV usage: salt((-pit)).
Pronounce: meh'-lakh
Origin: from 4414
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Luke 17:32• 32Remember Lot's wife. (Luke 17:32)

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Pillar,
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Ministry on This Verse

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looked.This unhappy woman, says the Rev. T. Scott, "looked back," contrary to God's express command, perhaps with a hope of returning, which latter supposition is favoured by our Lord's words, "Let him not return back:
remember Lot's wife."
She was, therefore, instantaneously struck dead and petrified, and thus remained to after ages a visible monument of the Divine displeasure.
Gen. 19:17• 17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. (Gen. 19:17)
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Prov. 14:14• 14The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. (Prov. 14:14)
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Luke 17:31‑32• 31In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
 32Remember Lot's wife. (Luke 17:31‑32)
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Heb. 10:38• 38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (Heb. 10:38)
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Num. 16:38• 38The 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. (Num. 16:38)
• Lot’s wife looked back. Lot personally was a righteous man, though caught in the toils of the world. His wife was a mere professor who, though she left the city, had her heart still there. She looked back to the place of her affections and became an everlasting warning to professors who, in a moment of fear, may separate from the world but have never known the call of the Lord. How solemn are the Lord’s own words, “Remember Lot’s wife” (Luke 17:32). (“Friendship With the World: Genesis 19” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

W. Kelly Translation

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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.