Isaiah 14:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּלְקָח֣וּם עַמִּים֮ וֶהֱבִיא֣וּם אֶל־מְקוֹמָם֒ וְהִֽתְנַחֲל֣וּם בֵּֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל עַ֚ל אַדְמַ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה לַעֲבָדִ֖ים וְלִשְׁפָח֑וֹת וְהָיוּ֙ שֹׁבִ֣ים לְשֹֽׁבֵיהֶ֔ם וְרָד֖וּ בְּנֹגְשֵׂיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And lǝqāḥûm ʿammîm and heḇîʾûm to-mǝqômām, and hitnaḥălûm bêt-yiśrāʾēl upon ʾadmat YHWH for-ʿăḇādîm and-for-šǝp̄āḥôt; and they-will-be šōḇîm to-šōḇêhem, and rādû over-nōḡǝśêhem.

Grammar Details

• *lǝqāḥûm*: qal perfect with suffix, 3rd plural - they will take them
• *ʿammîm*: masculine plural noun - peoples
• *heḇîʾûm*: hiphil perfect with suffix, 3rd plural - they will bring them
• *mǝqômām*: masculine noun with 3rd plural possessive suffix - their place
• *hitnaḥălûm*: hithpael perfect with suffix, 3rd plural - they will take possession of them
• *bêt*-*yiśrāʾēl*: construct phrase - house of Israel
• *ʾadmat*: construct form of feminine noun - land of
• *ʿăḇādîm*: masculine plural noun - male servants/slaves
• *šǝp̄āḥôt*: feminine plural noun - female servants/slaves
• *šōḇîm*: qal active participle, masculine plural - captors
• *šōḇêhem*: qal active participle with 3rd plural possessive suffix - their captors
• *rādû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will rule
• *nōḡǝśêhem*: qal active participle with 3rd plural possessive suffix - their oppressors

Word Meanings

• *lǝqāḥûm*: take them/receive them/acquire them
• *heḇîʾûm*: bring them/lead them/cause them to come
• *hitnaḥălûm*: take possession of them/inherit them/make them an inheritance
• *ʿăḇādîm*: servants/slaves/bondmen
• *šǝp̄āḥôt*: female servants/maids/slave girls
• *šōḇîm*: captors/takers captive
• *rādû*: rule/have dominion/subjugate

Referenced Verses

• Isa 60:14 : 14 And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 61:5 : 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners {H1121} shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
• Dan 7:18 : 18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
• Dan 7:25-27 : 25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. 26 But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. 27 And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
• Zech 14:2-3 : 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. 3 Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
• Rom 15:27 : 27 Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in carnal things.
• 2 Cor 8:4-5 : 4 beseeching us with much entreaty in {G2248} regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints: 5 and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
• Eph 4:8 : 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men.
• Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
• Rev 11:11-18 : 11 And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them. 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed {G3686} in the earthquake seven thousand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The second Woe is past: behold, the third Woe cometh quickly. 15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become [the kingdom] of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever. 16 And the four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God, 17 saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; {G2532} {G2064} because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign. 18 And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and [the time] to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.
• Rev 18:20-24 : 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her. 21 And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no {G3361} more at all in thee; 23 and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.
• Jer 30:16 : 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
• Ezra 2:65 : 65 besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
• Ps 68:18 : 18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led away captives; Thou hast received gifts among men, Yea, [among] the rebellious also, that Jehovah God might dwell [with them].
• Isa 18:7 : 7 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
• Isa 49:23 : 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.
• Isa 60:9-9 : 9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. 10 And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee. 11 Thy gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. 12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.