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Isaiah 34

Isa. 34:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andw the streams
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
thereof shall be turned
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
into pitch
zepheth (Hebrew #2203)
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
KJV usage: pitch.
Pronounce: zeh'-feth
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to liquify)
, and the dust
`aphar (Hebrew #6083)
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Pronounce: aw-fawr'
Origin: from 6080
thereof into brimstone
gophriyth (Hebrew #1614)
properly, cypress- resin; by analogy, sulphur (as equally inflammable)
KJV usage: brimstone.
Pronounce: gof-reeth'
Origin: probably feminine of 1613
, and the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
thereof shall become burning
ba`ar (Hebrew #1197)
to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); also (as denominative from 1198) to be(-come) brutish
KJV usage: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set ((on fire)), waste.
Pronounce: baw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
pitch
zepheth (Hebrew #2203)
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
KJV usage: pitch.
Pronounce: zeh'-feth
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to liquify)
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Deut. 29:23• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury: (Deut. 29:23)

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Brimstone,
Dust,
Pitch

Cross References

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Gen. 19:28• 28and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace. (Gen. 19:28)
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Deut. 29:23• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury: (Deut. 29:23)
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Job 18:15• 15They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation: (Job 18:15)
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Psa. 11:6• 6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. (Psa. 11:6)
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Luke 17:29• 29but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all of them: (Luke 17:29)
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Jude 7• 7as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)
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Rev. 19:20• 20And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone; (Rev. 19:20)
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Rev. 21:8• 8But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch: