Isaiah 18:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי כֹה אָמַר יְהוָה אֵלַי אֶשְׁקֳטָה וְאַבִּיטָה בִמְכוֹנִי כְּחֹם צַח עֲלֵי־אוֹר כְּעָב טַל בְּחֹם קָצִיר

Transliteration

For thus ʾāmar YHWH to-me ʾešqŏṭāh and-ʾabbîṭāh in-məkônî like-ḥōm ṣaḥ upon-ʾôr like-ʿāb ṭal in-ḥōm qāṣîr

Grammar Details

*ʾāmar*: verb, perfect, 3rd masculine, singular - said/spoke
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*ʾešqŏṭāh*: verb, cohortative, 1st singular - I will be quiet/rest
*ʾabbîṭāh*: verb, cohortative, 1st singular - I will look/regard
*məkônî*: noun, masculine, singular with 1st singular suffix - my dwelling place
*ḥōm*: noun, masculine, singular - heat
*ṣaḥ*: adjective, masculine, singular - clear/dazzling
*ʾôr*: noun, masculine, singular - light
*ʿāb*: noun, masculine, singular - cloud
*ṭal*: noun, masculine, singular - dew
*qāṣîr*: noun, masculine, singular - harvest

Word Meanings

*ʾešqŏṭāh*: I will be quiet/I will rest/I will remain still
*ʾabbîṭāh*: I will look/I will regard/I will consider
*məkônî*: my dwelling place/my habitation/my established place
*ṣaḥ*: clear/dazzling/glowing
*ʿāb*: cloud/thick darkness
*ṭal*: dew/light rain

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Referenced Verses

Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
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.
2 Sam 23:4 : 4 [ He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass [springeth] out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
Ps 72:6 : 6 He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation. 14 This is my resting-place for ever: Here will I dwell; For I have desired it.
Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 14:32 : 32 What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
Isa 26:19 : 19 Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Isa 31:9 : 9 And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Isa 46:13 : 13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Hos 14:5 : 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Joel 3:17 : 17 So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

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