Isaiah 48:2

American Standard Version (1901)

(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־מֵעִ֤יר הַקֹּ֙דֶשׁ֙ נִקְרָ֔אוּ וְעַל־אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נִסְמָ֑כוּ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

For from ʿîr haqqōdesh niqrāʾû and upon ʾĕlōhê yiśrāʾēl nismākû YHWH ṣebāʾôt shemô

Grammar Details

• *ʿîr*: construct state - city of
• *haqqōdesh*: definite article + masculine singular - the holiness/holy
• *niqrāʾû*: niphal perfect 3rd person plural - they are called/named
• *ʾĕlōhê*: construct state - God of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *nismākû*: niphal perfect 3rd person plural - they lean/rely
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *ṣebāʾôt*: feminine plural construct - of hosts/armies
• *shemô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his name

Word Meanings

• *ʿîr*: city/town
• *haqqōdesh*: the holy/the holiness/the sanctuary
• *niqrāʾû*: are called/are named/are summoned
• *nismākû*: lean on/rely on/depend on/are supported by
• *ṣebāʾôt*: hosts/armies/multitudes

Referenced Verses

• Mic 3:11 : 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
• Isa 10:20 : 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
• Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
• Rom 2:17 : 17 But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,
• Jer 21:2 : 2 Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Isa 47:4 : 4 Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 51:13 : 13 and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
• Matt 4:5 : 5 Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
• Matt 27:53 : 53 and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared unto many.
• John 8:40-41 : 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
• Isa 64:10-11 : 10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
• Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these. 5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore. 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known, 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah.
• Jer 10:16 : 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
• Judg 17:13 : 13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
• 1 Sam 4:3-5 : 3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh unto us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies. 4 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who sitteth [above] the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
• Neh 11:1 : 1 And the princes of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.
• Neh 11:18 : 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
• Ps 48:1 : 1 [A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah]. Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
• Ps 87:3 : 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. {{Selah
• Rev 11:2 : 2 And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
• Rev 21:2 : 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
• Rev 22:19 : 19 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.