Isaiah 22:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַה־לְּךָ֥ פֹה֙ וּמִ֣י לְךָ֣ פֹ֔ה כִּֽי־חָצַ֧בְתָּ לְּךָ֛ פֹּ֖ה קָ֑בֶר חֹצְבִ֤י מָרוֹם֙ קִבְר֔וֹ חֹקְקִ֥י בַסֶּ֖לַע מִשְׁכָּ֥ן לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

What-to-you here and-who to-you here that-ḥāṣabtā to-you here qāber ḥōṣᵉbî mārôm qibrô ḥōqᵉqî in-the-selaʿ miškān to-him

Grammar Details

מַה־לְּךָ֥: interrogative + preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - what to you
פֹה֙: adverb - here
וּמִ֣י: conjunction + interrogative - and who
לְךָ֣: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you
פֹ֔ה: adverb - here
כִּֽי־חָצַ֧בְתָּ: conjunction + Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - that you have hewn
לְּךָ֛: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - for yourself
פֹּ֖ה: adverb - here
*qāber*: masculine singular - tomb/grave
*ḥōṣᵉbî*: Qal participle, masculine singular construct - hewer of
*mārôm*: masculine singular - height/high place
*qibrô*: masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his tomb
*ḥōqᵉqî*: Qal participle, masculine singular construct - engraver of
בַסֶּ֖לַע: preposition + definite article + masculine singular - in the rock
*miškān*: masculine singular construct - dwelling place of
לֽוֹ: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - for himself

Word Meanings

*ḥāṣabtā*: you have hewn/cut out/excavated
*qāber*: tomb/grave/sepulchre
*ḥōṣᵉbî*: hewer/cutter/carver of
*mārôm*: height/high place/lofty place
*qibrô*: his tomb/grave
*ḥōqᵉqî*: engraver/carver of
*selaʿ*: rock/cliff/crag
*miškān*: dwelling place/habitation/resting place

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Matt 27:60 : 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.
2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.
2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
Job 3:14 : 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
Isa 14:18 : 18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.
Isa 52:5 : 5 Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.

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