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Numbers 16

Num. 16:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But if the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
γmake
bara' (Hebrew #1254)
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Pronounce: baw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
a newe thing
briy'ah (Hebrew #1278)
a creation, i.e. a novelty
KJV usage: new thing.
Pronounce: ber-ee-aw'
Origin: feminine from 1254
, and the earth
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
open
patsah (Hebrew #6475)
to rend, i.e. open (especially the mouth)
KJV usage: deliver, gape, open, rid, utter.
Pronounce: paw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
her mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
, and swallow them up
bala` (Hebrew #1104)
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
KJV usage: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Pronounce: baw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
quick
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
into the pit
sh'owl (Hebrew #7585)
from 7592; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.
Pronounce: sheh-ole'
Origin: or shol {sheh-ole'}
f; then ye shall understand
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
that these men
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
have provoked
na'ats (Hebrew #5006)
to scorn; or (Ecclesiastes 12:5) by interchange for 5132, to bloom
KJV usage: abhor, (give occasion to) blaspheme, contemn, despise, flourish, X great, provoke.
Pronounce: naw-ats'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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create a creature.
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Job 31:3• 3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? (Job 31:3)
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Num. 16:33• 33They, 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. (Num. 16:33)
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Psa. 55:15• 15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. (Psa. 55:15)

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Cross References

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make a new thing.Heb. create a creature; {wëim beriah yivra Yehowah,} "And if Jehovah should create a creation," i.e., do such a thing as was never done before.
Job 31:3• 3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? (Job 31:3)
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Isa. 28:21• 21For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. (Isa. 28:21)
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Isa. 43:19• 19Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. (Isa. 43:19)
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Isa. 45:7,12• 7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
 12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. (Isa. 45:7,12)
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Jer. 31:22• 22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. (Jer. 31:22)
and they.
Num. 16:33• 33They, 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. (Num. 16:33)
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Psa. 55:15• 15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. (Psa. 55:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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but if Jehovah make a new thingb, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheolc, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.

JND Translation Notes

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b
Lit. "create a creation."
c
See Note, Gen. 37.35.