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2 Kings 23:7

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And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.	And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.	And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that [were] in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which [were] on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And he brake down^H5422 the houses^H1004 of the sodomites^H6945, that were by the house^H1004 of the LORD^H3068, where the women^H802 wove^H707 hangings^H1004 for the grove^H842.

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Original Hebrew

וַיִּתֹּץ אֶת־בָּתֵּי הַקְּדֵשִׁים אֲשֶׁר בְּבֵית יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר הַנָּשִׁים אֹרְגֹות שָׁם בָּתִּים לָאֲשֵׁרָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יִּתֹּץ֙	va/i.yi.Totz	H5422	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he broke down
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
בָּתֵּ֣י	ba.Tei	H1004	HNcmpc	(the) houses of
הַ/קְּדֵשִׁ֔ים	ha./ke.de.Shim	H6945	HTd/Aampa	the/ male cult prostitutes
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	which
בְּ/בֵ֣ית	be./Veit	H1004	HR/Ncmsc	(were) in/ (the) house of
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	H3068	HNp	Yahweh
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	where
הַ/נָּשִׁ֗ים	ha./na.Shim	H802	HTd/Ncfpa	the/ women
אֹרְג֥וֹת	'o.re.goyt	H707	HVqrfpa	(were) weaving
שָׁ֛ם	sham	H8033	HD	there
בָּתִּ֖ים	ba.Tim	H1004	HNcmpa	containers
לָ/אֲשֵׁרָֽה	la./'a.she.Rah	H842	HRd/Np	for (the)/ Asherah

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H707 — אָרַג (ʼârag, aw-rag'): a primitive root; to plait or weave; weaver(-r).
• H802 — אִשָּׁה (ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'): feminine of אִישׁ or אֱנוֹשׁ; irregular plural, נָשִׁים;(used in the same wide sense as אֱנוֹשׁ); a woman; (adulter) ess, each, every, female, [idiom] many, [phrase] none, one, [phrase] together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
• H842 — אֲשֵׁרָה (ʼăshêrâh, ash-ay-raw'): or אֲשֵׁירָה; from אָשַׁר; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same; grove. Compare עַשְׁתֹּרֶת.
• H1004 — בַּיִת (bayith, bah'-yith): probably from בָּנָה abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.); court, daughter, door, [phrase] dungeon, family, [phrase] forth of, [idiom] great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, [phrase] prison, [phrase] steward, [phrase] tablet, temple, web, [phrase] within(-out).
• H3068 — יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'): from הָיָה; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ, יְהֹוִה.
• H5422 — נָתַץ (nâthats, naw-thats'): a primitive root; to tear down; beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.
• H6945 — קָדֵשׁ (qâdêsh, kaw-dashe'): from קָדַשׁ; a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry; sodomite, unclean.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H8033 — שָׁם (shâm, shawm): a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, אֲשֶׁר); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence; in it, [phrase] thence, there (-in, [phrase] of, [phrase] out), [phrase] thither, [phrase] whither.

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