Isaiah 3:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי֩ הִנֵּ֨ה הָאָד֜וֹן יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת מֵסִ֤יר מִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ וּמִ֣יהוּדָ֔ה מַשְׁעֵ֖ן וּמַשְׁעֵנָ֑ה כֹּ֚ל מִשְׁעַן־לֶ֔חֶם וְכֹ֖ל מִשְׁעַן־מָֽיִם

Transliteration

For hinnēh the ʾādôn YHWH ṣəbāʾôt mēsîr from-Yərûšālaim and-from-Yəhûdāh mašʿēn and-mašʿēnāh, all mišʿan-leḥem and-all mišʿan-māyim

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because/that
*hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold/look
*hāʾādôn*: definite noun, masculine singular - the lord/master
*YHWH*: divine name
*ṣəbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - hosts/armies
*mēsîr*: Hiphil participle, masculine singular - removing/taking away
*Yərûšālaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
*Yəhûdāh*: proper noun - Judah
*mašʿēn*: noun, masculine singular - support/stay
*mašʿēnāh*: noun, feminine singular - support/stay
*kōl*: noun, construct - all/every
*mišʿan*: noun, masculine singular construct - supply/support of
*leḥem*: noun, masculine singular - bread/food
*māyim*: noun, masculine plural - water

Word Meanings

*hinnēh*: behold/look/see
*ʾādôn*: lord/master/ruler
*YHWH*: LORD/Yahweh/Jehovah
*ṣəbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/battalions
*mēsîr*: removing/taking away/turning aside
*mašʿēn*: support/stay/staff
*mašʿēnāh*: feminine form of support/stay/staff
*mišʿan*: supply/support/sustenance
*leḥem*: bread/food/sustenance
*māyim*: water/waters/liquid

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Referenced Verses

Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;
Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Isa 5:13 : 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
Isa 36:12 : 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
Isa 51:22 : 22 Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Jer 37:21 : 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Jer 38:9 : 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay: 17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Ezek 14:13 : 13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;
Ps 105:16 : 16 And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

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