Isaiah 16:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁלְחוּ־כַ֥ר מֹשֵֽׁל־אֶ֖רֶץ מִסֶּ֣לַע מִדְבָּ֑רָה אֶל־הַ֖ר בַּת־צִיּֽוֹן

Transliteration

šilḥû-kar mōšēl-ʾereṣ from-selaʿ midbārāh to-the-har bat-ṣiyyôn

Grammar Details

*šilḥû*: imperative, masculine plural - send/send forth
*kar*: noun, masculine singular - lamb/ram
*mōšēl*: participle, masculine singular construct - ruler of
*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular - land/earth
*selaʿ*: noun, masculine singular with preposition מִ (from) - rock/Sela (location)
*midbārāh*: noun, masculine singular with directional ה - toward the wilderness
*har*: noun, masculine singular construct - mountain of
*bat*: noun, feminine singular construct - daughter of
*ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion

Word Meanings

*šilḥû*: send/send forth/dispatch
*kar*: lamb/ram/tribute animal
*selaʿ*: rock/Sela (place name in Edom)
*midbārāh*: toward the wilderness/to the desert
*bat-ṣiyyôn*: daughter of Zion/personification of Jerusalem

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.
Isa 10:32 : 32 This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
2 Kgs 14:7 : 7 He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.
Ezra 7:17 : 17 therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Isa 42:11 : 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Mic 4:8 : 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
2 Sam 8:2 : 2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

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