Isaiah 13:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֥ם יְרֻטְּשׁ֖וּ לְעֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם יִשַּׁ֙סּוּ֙ בָּֽתֵּיהֶ֔ם וּנְשֵׁיהֶ֖ם *תשגלנה **תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה׃

Transliteration

Wə-ʿōləlêhem yəruṭṭəšû before-ʿênêhem yiššassû bāttêhem û-nəšêhem tiššāḵaḇnāh

Grammar Details

*wəʿōləlêhem*: conjunction + noun, masculine, plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their infants
*yəruṭṭəšû*: verb, Pual imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - will be dashed to pieces
*ləʿênêhem*: preposition + noun, feminine, dual + 3rd masculine plural suffix - before their eyes
*yiššassû*: verb, Niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - will be plundered
*bāttêhem*: noun, masculine, plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their houses
*ûnəšêhem*: conjunction + noun, feminine, plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their wives
*tiššāḵaḇnāh*: verb, Niphal imperfect, 3rd feminine plural - will be violated/ravished/lain with

Word Meanings

*ʿōləlêhem*: their infants/their little ones/their children
*yəruṭṭəšû*: will be dashed to pieces/smashed/killed violently
*yiššassû*: will be plundered/looted/robbed
*tiššāḵaḇnāh*: will be violated/ravished/lain with (euphemism for rape)
*tishgalnah*: alternate reading (Kethib) - will be violated/raped

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.
Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
Isa 13:18 : 18 And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Lam 5:11 : 11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

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