Isaiah 18
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
6They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7766× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- אֵלʼêlH4134× in this chapter
near, with or among; often in general, to
- עַלʻalH59214× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- קַו־קַוqav-qavH69784× in this chapter
stalwart
- גּוֹיgôwyH14713× in this chapter
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
- הוּאhûwʼH19313× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הַרharH20223× in this chapter
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30683× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- נָהָרnâhârH51043× in this chapter
a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
- עַםʻamH59713× in this chapter
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
- אֲשֶׁרʼăsherH8343× in this chapter
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
- הָלְאָהhâlᵉʼâhH19732× in this chapter
to the distance, i.e. far away; also (of time) thus far
- חֹםchômH25272× in this chapter
heat
- יָרֵאyârêʼH33722× in this chapter
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
- כִּיkîyH35882× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- כֹּלkôlH36052× in this chapter
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- מְבוּסָהmᵉbûwçâhH40012× in this chapter
a trampling
- מִןminH44802× in this chapter
properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
- מָרַטmâraṭH48032× in this chapter
to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen
- מָשַׁךְmâshakH49002× in this chapter
to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)
- עַיִטʻayiṭH58612× in this chapter
a hawk or other bird of prey
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64402× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- צָבָאtsâbâʼH66352× in this chapter
a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
- קָצִירqâtsîyrH71052× in this chapter
severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage)
- בְּהֵמָהbᵉhêmâhH9292× in this chapter
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
- בָּזָאbâzâʼH9582× in this chapter
probably to cleave
- בֹּסֶרbôçerH11551× in this chapter
{an immature grape}
- גֹּמֶאgômeʼH15731× in this chapter
properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
- גָּמַלgâmalH15801× in this chapter
to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite; by implication (of toil), to ripen, i.e. (specifically) to wean
- הוֹיhôwyH19451× in this chapter
oh!
- הָיָהhâyâhH19611× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- הָלַךְhâlakH19801× in this chapter
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- זַלְזַלzalzalH21501× in this chapter
tremulous, i.e. a twig
- אוֹרʼôwrH2161× in this chapter
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
- חָרַףchâraphH27781× in this chapter
to pull off, i.e. (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth (as if a surrender); figuratively, to carp at, i.e. defame; to spend the winter
- טַלṭalH29191× in this chapter
dew (as covering vegetation)
- יָבַלyâbalH29861× in this chapter
properly, to flow; causatively, to bring (especially with pomp)
- יַחַדyachadH31621× in this chapter
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
- יָםyâmH32201× in this chapter
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
- יָשַׁבyâshabH34271× in this chapter
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry