Isaiah 26:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּמ֤וֹ הָרָה֙ תַּקְרִ֣יב לָלֶ֔דֶת תָּחִ֥יל תִּזְעַ֖ק בַּחֲבָלֶ֑יהָ כֵּ֛ן הָיִ֥ינוּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

Like hārāh taqrîb to lāledet, tāḥîl tizʿaq in ḥăbāleyhā, so hāyînû from pāneḵā, YHWH.

Grammar Details

*Kemô*: preposition - 'like/as'
*hārāh*: feminine singular adjective - 'pregnant woman'
*taqrîb*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - 'she draws near'
*lāledet*: preposition with qal infinitive construct - 'to give birth'
*tāḥîl*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - 'she writhes'
*tizʿaq*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - 'she cries out'
*baḥăbāleyhā*: preposition with masculine plural noun and 3rd person feminine singular suffix - 'in her labor pains'
*kēn*: adverb - 'so/thus'
*hāyînû*: qal perfect 1st person plural - 'we were'
*mippāneḵā*: preposition with plural noun and 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'from your face/presence'
*YHWH*: divine name - 'YHWH'

Word Meanings

*hārāh*: pregnant woman/one who conceived
*taqrîb*: draws near/approaches/comes close
*tāḥîl*: writhes/twists/trembles/is in anguish
*tizʿaq*: cries out/calls/shouts
*ḥăbāleyhā*: labor pains/birth pangs/cords

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

John 16:21 : 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.
Isa 13:8 : 8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.
Isa 21:3 : 3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
1 Thess 5:3 : 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Ps 48:6 : 6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
Jer 6:24 : 24 We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jer 30:6 : 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

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