Isaiah 22:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תְּשֻׁא֣וֹת ׀ מְלֵאָ֗ה עִ֚יר הֽוֹמִיָּ֔ה קִרְיָ֖ה עַלִּיזָ֑ה חֲלָלַ֙יִךְ֙ לֹ֣א חַלְלֵי־חֶ֔רֶב וְלֹ֖א מֵתֵ֥י מִלְחָמָֽה׃

Transliteration

Tᵉšuʾôt mᵉlēʾāh ʿîr hômiyyāh qiryāh ʿallîzāh ḥᵃlālayik not ḥallᵉlê-ḥereb and-not mētê milḥāmāh

Grammar Details

*Tᵉšuʾôt*: feminine plural - noise/clamor
*mᵉlēʾāh*: Qal feminine singular participle - full
*ʿîr*: feminine singular - city
*hômiyyāh*: feminine singular participle - tumultuous
*qiryāh*: feminine singular - town/city
*ʿallîzāh*: feminine singular adjective - exultant/jubilant
*ḥᵃlālayik*: masculine plural noun with 2nd feminine singular suffix - your slain
לֹ֣א: negative particle - not
*ḥallᵉlê*-*ḥereb*: construct state, masculine plural + masculine singular - slain of sword
וְלֹ֖א: conjunction + negative particle - and not
*mētê*: construct state, masculine plural - dead of
*milḥāmāh*: feminine singular - battle/war

Word Meanings

*Tᵉšuʾôt*: noise/clamor/shouts/tumult
*mᵉlēʾāh*: full/filled
*hômiyyāh*: tumultuous/noisy/clamorous
*qiryāh*: town/city/settlement
*ʿallîzāh*: exultant/jubilant/joyous
*ḥᵃlālayik*: your slain/pierced ones
*ḥallᵉlê*: slain/pierced ones of
*ḥereb*: sword/warfare
*mētê*: dead of
*milḥāmāh*: battle/war/fighting

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Referenced Verses

Isa 32:13 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isa 23:7 : 7 Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?
Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
Lam 2:20 : 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lam 4:9-9 : 9 They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Amos 6:3-6 : 3 —ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Jer 38:2 : 2 Thus saith Jehovah, He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey, and he shall live.
Jer 52:6 : 6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Isa 22:12-13 : 12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13 and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
Isa 37:33 : 33 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
Isa 37:36 : 36 And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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