Isaiah 40:17

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And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.	All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.	To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

All nations^H1471 before him are as nothing; and they are counted^H2803 to him less than nothing^H657, and vanity^H8414.

Original Hebrew

כָּל־הַגֹּויִם כְּאַיִן נֶגְדֹּו מֵאֶפֶס וָתֹהוּ נֶחְשְׁבוּ־לֹו׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
כָּל	kol-	H3605	HNcmsc	all
הַ/גּוֹיִ֖ם	ha./go.Yim	H1471	HTd/Ncmpa	the/ nations
כְּ/אַ֣יִן	ke./'A.yin	H369	HR/Tn	(are) as/ nothing
נֶגְדּ֑/וֹ	neg.D/o	H5048	HR/Sp3ms	before/ him
מֵ/אֶ֥פֶס	me./'E.fes	H657	HR/Ncmsa	from/ nothingness
וָ/תֹ֖הוּ	va./To.hu	H8414	HC/Ncmsa	and/ emptiness
נֶחְשְׁבוּ	nech.she.vu-	H2803	HVNp3cp	they are regarded
לֽ/וֹ	l/o		HR/Sp3ms	by/ him

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

Strong's References

H657 — אֶפֶס (ʼepheç, eh'-fes): from אָפֵס; (sometimes like פָּעַל); cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or foot; ankle, but (only), end, howbeit, less than nothing, nevertheless (where), no, none (beside), not (any, -withstanding), thing of nought, save(-ing), there, uttermost part, want, without (cause).
H1471 — גּוֹי (gôwy, go'-ee): rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts; Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
H2803 — חָשַׁב (châshab, khaw-shab'): a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute; (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
H8414 — תֹּהוּ (tôhûw, to'-hoo): from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain; confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

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

H369 — אַיִן (ʼayin, ah'-yin): as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle; else, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare אַיִן.
H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).
H5048 — נֶגֶד (neged, neh'-ghed): from נָגַד; a front, i.e. part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually (adverbial, especially with preposition) over against or before; about, (over) against, [idiom] aloof, [idiom] far (off), [idiom] from, over, presence, [idiom] other side, sight, [idiom] to view.

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