Isaiah 2:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חִדְל֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מִן־הָ֣אָדָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְשָׁמָ֖ה בְּאַפּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־בַמֶּ֥ה נֶחְשָׁ֖ב הֽוּא׃ פ

Transliteration

Ḥidlû to-you from-the-ʾādām who nəšāmâ in-ʾappô, for-in-what neḥšāb he?

Grammar Details

*ḥidlû*: verb, qal imperative, masculine plural - cease/stop/refrain
*lākem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - to/for you
*min-hā-ʾādām*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - from mankind/humanity
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which
*nəšāmâ*: noun, feminine singular - breath
*bə-ʾappô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his nostrils
*kî-ba-mmê*: conjunction + preposition + interrogative pronoun - for in what
*neḥšāb*: verb, niphal participle, masculine singular - is accounted/valued
*hûʾ*: pronoun, 3rd masculine singular - he

Word Meanings

*ḥidlû*: cease/stop/refrain/desist
*ʾādām*: mankind/humanity/man
*nəšāmâ*: breath/life/spirit
*ʾappô*: his nostrils/nose/face
*neḥšāb*: is accounted/valued/regarded/esteemed
*ba-mmê neḥšāb hûʾ*: of what account is he/how is he to be valued

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Referenced Verses

Ps 146:3 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
Ps 144:3-4 : 3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. {G1063} What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Job 27:3 : 3 (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Isa 40:15 : 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 7:22 : 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
Job 7:15-21 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones. 16 I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him, 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 If I have sinned, what I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

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