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Exodus 19:18 — King James Version← Study notes

And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.


Exodus 19:18Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Exodus 19:1818 words
וְהַרwəharAnd mountain
סִינַיsînaySinai
עָשַׁןʿāšanSmoke
כֻּלּוֹkulwōWhole
מִפְּנֵיmipənêFrom face
אֲשֶׁרʾăšerWho
יָרַדyāradDescend
עָלָיוʿālāywAbove
יְהוָהyəhwāhLORD
בָּאֵשׁbāʾēšIn fire
וַיַּעַלwayaʿalAnd ascend
עֲשָׁנוֹʿăšānwōSmoke
כְּעֶשֶׁןkəʿešenLike smoke
הַכִּבְשָׁןhakivəšānThe furnace
וַיֶּחֱרַדwayeḥĕradAnd shudder
כָּלkālWhole
הָהָרhāhārThe mountain
מְאֹדməʾōdVehemence
Words read right to left. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Word-by-word meanings

וְהַרwəharAnd mountain
סִינַיsînaySinai
עָשַׁןʿāšanSmoke
כֻּלּוֹkulwōWhole
מִפְּנֵיmipənêFrom face
אֲשֶׁרʾăšerWho
יָרַדyāradDescend
עָלָיוʿālāywAbove
יְהוָהyəhwāhLORD
בָּאֵשׁbāʾēšIn fire
וַיַּעַלwayaʿalAnd ascend
עֲשָׁנוֹʿăšānwōSmoke
כְּעֶשֶׁןkəʿešenLike smoke
הַכִּבְשָׁןhakivəšānThe furnace
וַיֶּחֱרַדwayeḥĕradAnd shudder
כָּלkālWhole
הָהָרhāhārThe mountain
מְאֹדməʾōdVehemence

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