Isaiah 24:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נִשְׁאַ֥ר בָּעִ֖יר שַׁמָּ֑ה וּשְׁאִיָּ֖ה יֻכַּת־שָֽׁעַר׃

Transliteration

nišʾar in-the-ʿîr šammāh and-šəʾiyyāh yukkat-šāʿar

Grammar Details

*nišʾar*: Niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is left
*ʿîr*: common noun, feminine singular with preposition ב and definite article - in the city
*šammāh*: common noun, feminine singular - desolation
*šəʾiyyāh*: common noun, feminine singular with conjunction ו - and devastation
*yukkat*: Hophal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is beaten down
*šāʿar*: common noun, masculine singular - gate

Word Meanings

*nišʾar*: is left/remains/is spared
*šammāh*: desolation/waste/horror
*šəʾiyyāh*: devastation/ruin/crash
*yukkat*: is beaten down/is battered/is struck
*šāʿar*: gate/entrance/city gate

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 32:14 : 14 For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Lam 1:1 : 1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!
Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lam 2:9 : 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.
Lam 5:18 : 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
Mic 1:9 : 9 For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

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