Isaiah 29:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְחָנִ֥יתִי כַדּ֖וּר עָלָ֑יִךְ וְצַרְתִּ֤י עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ מֻצָּ֔ב וַהֲקֽ͏ִימֹתִ֥י עָלַ֖יִךְ מְצֻרֹֽת

Transliteration

wĕ-ḥānîtî like-kaddûr against-you[fs] wĕ-ṣartî against-you[fs] muṣṣāḇ wa-hăqîmōtî against-you[fs] mĕṣurōt

Grammar Details

*wĕ-ḥānîtî*: verb, qal perfect with waw consecutive, 1st person singular - I will encamp/camp
*kaddûr*: preposition kaph + noun, masculine singular - like a circle/round
*ʿālāyiḵ*: preposition ʿal + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - against you
*wĕ-ṣartî*: verb, qal perfect with waw consecutive, 1st person singular - I will besiege/bind
*ʿālayiḵ*: preposition ʿal + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - against you
*muṣṣāḇ*: noun, masculine singular - siege/army post/garrison
*wa-hăqîmōtî*: verb, hiphil perfect with waw consecutive, 1st person singular - I will raise/establish
*mĕṣurōt*: noun, feminine plural - siegeworks/bulwarks/fortifications

Word Meanings

*ḥānîtî*: encamp/camp against/besiege
*kaddûr*: circle/ball/round/surrounding
*ṣartî*: besiege/bind/distress
*muṣṣāḇ*: siege/army post/garrison/military installation
*mĕṣurōt*: siegeworks/bulwarks/fortifications/watchtowers

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Referenced Verses

Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Ezek 21:22 : 22 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
2 Kgs 18:17 : 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kgs 19:32 : 32 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.
2 Kgs 24:11-12 : 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it; 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kgs 25:1-4 : 1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

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