Isaiah 20:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלַ֛ךְ עַבְדִּ֥י יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּ עָר֣וֹם וְיָחֵ֑ף שָׁלֹ֤שׁ שָׁנִים֙ א֣וֹת וּמוֹפֵ֔ת עַל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַל־כּֽוּשׁ׃

Transliteration

wayyōʾmer YHWH kaʾasher hālak ʿabdī yəshaʿyāhū ʿārōm wəyāḥēp shālōsh shānīm ʾōth ūmōpēth upon-miṣrayim and upon-kūsh

Grammar Details

*wayyōʾmer*: waw consecutive + 3rd masculine singular Qal imperfect - and he said
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*kaʾasher*: preposition + relative particle - just as
*hālak*: 3rd masculine singular Qal perfect - walked/went
*ʿabdī*: noun + 1st person singular suffix - my servant
*yəshaʿyāhū*: proper noun - Isaiah
*ʿārōm*: adjective - naked/lightly clothed
*wəyāḥēp*: waw conjunctive + adjective - and barefoot
*shālōsh*: cardinal number - three
*shānīm*: plural noun - years
*ʾōth*: noun - sign
*ūmōpēth*: waw conjunctive + noun - and wonder/portent
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
*kūsh*: proper noun - Cush/Ethiopia

Word Meanings

*ʿārōm*: naked/minimally clothed/without outer garment
*ʾōth*: sign/symbol/omen
*mōpēth*: wonder/portent/prophetic sign
*kūsh*: Cush/Ethiopia/Nubia (region south of Egypt)

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 8:18 : 18 Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
Isa 18:1-7 : 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 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! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye. 4 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. 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down. 6 They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 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.
Isa 37:9 : 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.
Ezek 4:5-6 : 5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
Rev 11:2-3 : 2 And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. 3 And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Num 14:34 : 34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

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