Isaiah 14:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹֽא־תֵחַ֤ד אִתָּם֙ בִּקְבוּרָ֔ה כִּֽי־אַרְצְךָ֥ שִׁחַ֖תָּ עַמְּךָ֣ הָרָ֑גְתָּ לֹֽא־יִקָּרֵ֥א לְעוֹלָ֖ם זֶ֥רַע מְרֵעִֽים׃

Transliteration

Not-tēḥad with-them in-qǝḇûrāh, for-ʾarṣǝḵā šiḥattā, ʿammǝḵā hārāḡtā. Not-yiqqārēʾ to-ʿôlām zeraʿ mǝrēʿîm.

Grammar Details

*tēḥad*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will be united
*qǝḇûrāh*: feminine singular noun - burial/grave
*ʾarṣǝḵā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your land
*šiḥattā*: piel perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have destroyed/ruined
*ʿammǝḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your people
*hārāḡtā*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have killed/slain
*yiqqārēʾ*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be called/named
*ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - eternity/forever
*zeraʿ*: masculine singular construct - seed/offspring of
*mǝrēʿîm*: hiphil participle, masculine plural - evildoers

Word Meanings

*tēḥad*: you will be united/you will join/you will be brought together
*qǝḇûrāh*: burial/grave/tomb
*šiḥattā*: you have destroyed/you have ruined/you have corrupted
*hārāḡtā*: you have killed/you have slain/you have murdered
*yiqqārēʾ*: will be called/will be named/will be proclaimed
*ʿôlām*: eternity/forever/perpetuity
*zeraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants
*mǝrēʿîm*: evildoers/those doing evil/wrongdoers

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 18:19 : 19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Ps 21:10 : 10 Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.
Ps 37:28 : 28 For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Job 18:16 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.
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.
Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged [and gone] backward.
Isa 13:15-19 : 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword. 16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 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. 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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