Isaiah 19:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָר֔וֹת דָּלֲל֥וּ וְחָרְב֖וּ יְאֹרֵ֣י מָצ֑וֹר קָנֶ֥ה וָס֖וּף קָמֵֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

And-heʾeznîḥû nĕhārôṯ dālălû and-ḥārḇû yĕʾōrê māṣôr qāneh and-sûp̄ qāmēlû

Grammar Details

*heʾeznîḥû*: verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person plural - they will become foul/stink
*nĕhārôṯ*: noun, masculine plural - rivers
*dālălû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they will be low/diminished
*ḥārḇû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they will be dried up
*yĕʾōrê*: noun, masculine plural construct - canals of
*māṣôr*: proper noun - Egypt/fortress
*qāneh*: noun, masculine singular - reed/stalk
*sûp̄*: noun, masculine singular - reeds/rushes
*qāmēlû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they will wither/dry up

Word Meanings

*heʾeznîḥû*: they will become foul/stink/be putrid/emit stench
*nĕhārôṯ*: rivers/streams/canals
*dālălû*: they will be low/diminished/brought low/thin
*ḥārḇû*: they will be dried up/desolate/waste
*yĕʾōrê*: canals/channels/Nile streams
*māṣôr*: Egypt/fortress/siege/distress
*qāneh*: reed/stalk/measuring rod/branch
*sûp̄*: reeds/rushes/water plants
*qāmēlû*: they will wither/dry up/fade/shrivel

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Referenced Verses

Isa 37:25 : 25 I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
Exod 2:3 : 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Job 8:11 : 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
Isa 15:6 : 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Isa 18:2 : 2 that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
Exod 7:18 : 18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.
2 Kgs 19:24 : 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

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