Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleFor they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up. Young's Literal Translation For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers do swallow it up. King James Bible For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Hebrew Indeed,כִּ֛י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction they sow יִזְרָ֖עוּ (yiz·rā·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify the wind ר֥וּחַ (rū·aḥ) Noun - common singular Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit and reap יִקְצֹ֑רוּ (yiq·ṣō·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest the whirlwind. וְסוּפָ֣תָה (wə·sū·p̄ā·ṯāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 5492: A storm wind There is no אֵֽין־ (’ên-) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle standing grain; קָמָ֣ה (qā·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7054: Something that rises, a stalk of grain what sprouts צֶ֚מַח (ṣe·maḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6780: A sprout, growth fails בְּלִ֣י (bə·lî) Adverb Strong's 1097: Failure, nothing, destruction, without, not yet, because not, as long as to yield יַֽעֲשֶׂה־ (ya·‘ă·śeh-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make flour. קֶּ֔מַח (qe·maḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7058: Flour, meal Even if אוּלַ֣י (’ū·lay) Adverb Strong's 194: Perhaps it should produce, יַֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה (ya·‘ă·śeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make the foreigners זָרִ֖ים (zā·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery would swallow it up. יִבְלָעֻֽהוּ׃ (yiḇ·lā·‘u·hū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf |
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